Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge Edward McCorrison, "Little King" (U. S. magistrate) of Molokai, had seen the wheezing ship pass over his courthouse and was among the first to welcome the visitors. He guided them to the local radio station. The army planes from Honolulu were sent over (60 miles southeast) to pick up heroes instead of victims. Pilot Smith used Charles Augustus Lindbergh's phrase as he set foot on Wheeler Field. "Well," he said, "here...
...Avoyelles flood came from the inland sea formed by last fortnight's levee-breaks in Northern Louisiana. Through this inland sea was moving the main flood crest of the Mississippi itself, headed southeast through the Old River to the main channel of the Mississippi itself. Thus the Avoyelles flood was a sort of gigantic overflow, distinct from the central stream that raced toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sweeping last week through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri...
...Southeast. Here's a map to prove...
Higher education is becoming increasingly centralized. About 4% of all U. S. colleges enroll about 40% of the students. The geographical centre of higher education, having moved steadily inland from the Atlantic seaboard since 1880, has crossed the Indiana-Illinois line and is some 15 miles southeast of Urbana...
Preliminary work is already well advanced on the new baseball cage which is to be located at the southeast corner of Soldiers Field, next to the Locker Building. The contract has been let to the E. W. Pitman Co., of Lawrence, Massachusetts...