Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smart black Russian boots and well-cut woolen tunic contrasted sharply with the padded garb of Yenan's comrades. He had spent half of his 24 years in Russia, where he had gone in 1935 during the Communist Long March from Central China to the Northwest. His elder brother is still in the Soviet capital...
...college does not show its years. Beloit was once called the "Yale of the West" because two of its founders, Stephen Peet and Aaron Chapin, and its first two faculty members were all Yale men. Today it calls itself the oldest college in the Northwest,* and boasts of a top drawer anthropology department, with a $200,000 museum of its own (Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is a Beloit graduate). One of Beloit's attractions for its students is its ability to hang on to some of the freshwater college atmosphere so dear to the scenarists who wrote Jack Oakie...
Words & Moods. In the far more significant provincial elections (30,000,000 voters), to be held between January and April, the issue will be Pakistan-whether or not to slice off the four predominantly Moslem provinces in India's northwest corner, plus Bengal and Assam in the east, as a separate Moslem land...
...Germany, Canada's first big war crimes trial was on. In a paneled room in the onetime naval barracks at Aurich (18 miles northwest of Emden), impassive SS Major General Kurt ("Panzer") Meyer, 33, stood trial for his life before a Canadian military court. To five charges against him he answered a crisp nein...
Growth of the Guerrillas. Obviously Franco preferred troubles abroad to troubles at home, but at home they were mounting too. In the mountains of Andalusia, the slopes northeast and northwest of Madrid, and the foothills of the Pyrenees, guerrilla forces, operating in 21 areas, had grown increasingly bold since...