Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final collapse of the Basque defense liberated some 50,000 Rightist troops for use on other fronts-and none too soon, for the Leftists immediately loosed a savage but apparently unsuccessful drive on Saragossa, the Rightist advance base on the Aragon front. 200 miles to the southeast. The Basque collapse also all but completely nipped off that little Leftist island on the north coast which has so long blemished the otherwise total dominance of the northern and western half of Spain by the Rightist forces. This territory last week was populated by 14,000,000 of Spain...
...ruffled waters of Chesapeake Bay aboard a small tender. The Senate Ladies Club and a collection of wives of the Cabinet and of ex-officials (among them Widow Woodrow Wilson), were off on a jaunt to that sanctum of male Democratic leisure, the Jefferson Islands Club some 20 miles southeast of Annapolis. They had a look through the rambling clubhouse, traipsed over the 34-acre island on which it stands and viewed the Club's 136-acre duck-hunting preserve. After a jolly luncheon at the clubhouse, they returned to Annapolis with a solid first-hand knowledge...
Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh. The massed bands and drums were in the centre, and, flashing silver, blue and scarlet, in the southeast corner mounted troops of the Royal Horse Guards and Life Guards...
Knee-deep in snow 10,000 ft. up the granite scarp of Lone Peak in the Wasatch Mountains, 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, last week a snowy-haired oldster of 90 named Ed Hamilton fingered a small splinter of duralumin while tears filled his eyes. Tugging at his white beard, he mumbled: "I'm glad. That...
...Union Pacific Railroad, the U. S. Government asked the friendly Shoshone Indian Tribes in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming to swap their 44,672,000 miscellaneous acres for the choice, compact, well-watered 3,054,182 acres of what is now the Wind River Reservation southeast of Yellowstone National Park. The Indians agreed, moved and thereafter aided U. S. soldiers in campaigns against such hostile tribes as the Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheyennes. A few years later for reasons now unknown the conquered Arapahoes were given U. S. military escort to the Shoshone lands, protected in their occupancy of a million...