Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loch Ness, largest of Scotland's lakes (22½ mi. long, 1¾ mi. wide), bisects the Highlands from Inverness on the northeast to Fort Augustus- on the southwest. Near its narrow shores are many a Highland distillery, many towns and glens intimately connected with haberdashery: Inverness (tweed capes), Glen Urquhart (gents' suitings), Glen Garry (highland bonnets). Ben Nevis, best publicized mountain in Scotland, is only 30 mi. to the southwest. In August 1933 when workmen were blasting a new motor road along the west shore of the lake, the monster was first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following...
...piccolo Caporetto" (TIME, April 5). By last week the Rightists had lost strips and snippets of territory here & there along most of their fronts as the Leftists proved able for the first time to get out in the open and launch sustained attacks. They pressed their offensive northeast of Madrid for a gain of twelve miles, hurtled through in the Cordoba sector 13 miles, and delivered their first major blows outside of Spain proper by sending a fleet of bombers and the battleship Jaime Primero across the Straits of Gibraltar to shell and strafe Ceuta, important supply base in Spanish...
...down, of actors who carry on the show as fire and panic threaten, of reporters whose dying gasps are in the service of their newspapers. Last week a new and complicated episode of newspaper dramatics was enacted in the little town of Alturas (pop. 2,338), up in the northeast corner county of California...
Year-round average temperature in Northeast Nevada is 46.2°, in Southeast Nevada 64.5°. Most Nevadans like their State's climate...
...Armies of Tin Soldiers!" Equally brimming with Spanish passion last week in Madrid was its Defense Junta head, bald General Jose Miaja who at first tried to keep his Red Militia from growing over confident at their success northeast of Madrid in driving Italian Rightists back nearly 20 miles (TIME, March 22). The General by last week had toured the ter rain from which the Italians fled, abandoning roughly 2,000,000 rounds of am munition, and his pride in Spanish prow ess was at bursting point. A group of neutral Red Cross doctors and nurses offered General Miaja...