Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palatial colonial house in the southeast corner of the Yard, home of George Herbert Palmer '64. Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, emeritus, for more than fifty years, but which has been unoccupied since his death on May 7, 1933, will be used once more as a residence by an officer of the University, when Richard Mott Gummere, new Chairman of the Committee on Admissions and lecture in Latin occupies it this fall...
...Year ago his father offered $3,000 for the first motorless flight from Elmira to within 25 miles of New York's Times Square. To attempt such a distance flight now with neither map nor parachute was a risky business. But the opportunity might not come soon again. Southeast, without a second thought, young du Pont pointed the nose of Albatross II. Skillfully he darted from cloud to cloud, hitchhiking on thermal currents. Over the rugged Alleghanies he soared in silence, flew south along the Susquehanna River. Over Scranton he ran out of clouds; dropped...
...successive winters favorable to chinch bugs had raised Corn Belt infestation to menacing proportions. Officials had counted as high as 5,000 pests to the square foot. Furthermore, the swarming insects were deserting drought-withered grains and grasses for the nearest succulent growth-principally corn. Continuous rains in the southeast and no rains at all in the southwest held cotton around 12? per Ib. The Mississippi Plant Board reported an average count of 119 boll weevils to the acre, against 75 the week before, 323 year ago. Prospects of a reduction in breeding stock and mounting feed prices boosted topnotch...
...Shoals. The first lightship was stationed off the shoals in 1854. Three years ago Lightship No. 117, a 132-ft. craft equipped with every device science could think of to protect transatlantic shipping, was launched at Charleston, S. C. and took up its rough and lonely post 40 mi. southeast of Nantucket Island...
...east have been compared to the historic Blizzard of '88. There were memorable storms in 1893, 1910 and 1920. But last week brought two storms which lashed New England to its knees, knotted its icy grip on New York and New Jersey and jolted the entire Southeast. One swept up from Cape Hatteras, the other from the Rio Grande. Meteorologically separate, they will be associated in popular memory as a single catastrophe, with the title of "the worst since...