Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe four years ago (TIME, Sept. 24, 1928). They gathered in clusters, looking southeast. A few boarded up their windows. Others did 'nothing until police began herding them into their least flimsy churches and schoolhouses...
...showed that average church attendance varies inversely with the size of the community, from 71% in a village of less than 2,500 to 30% in a city over 50,000. Regionally, the lowest average attendance is in the urban Middle Atlantic states; the highest (78%) in the rural Southeast...
...Civic Centre is just south of old Denver where the streets run northwest and southeast along the banks of Cherry Creek. There, where Cherry Creek enters the South Platte, the first cabin was built in 1858 by W. Green Russell & friends, with John Simpson Smith and his squaw Wapoola. Cherry Creek, alternately dry and flooded, divided the settlement into Auraria City (after Russell's hometown in Georgia) and Denver City (after Governor James W. Denver). In 1860 a bridge across the creek was finished, people from both sides met on the bridge by moonlight, shook hands, made speeches...
...Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued his audience into re-electing him commander by acclaim. Then he returned to B. E. F. headquarters on 11th Street, Southeast, posted sentries as a precaution against a counter coup by his political enemies. That night Commander Waters' driver reported that the official car had been fired upon...
Career: Educated in the common schools, he attended the Southeast Alabama Agricultural School at Abbeville for two years (1890-92), moving on to the University of Alabama to obtain a law degree (1893). After nine years' private practice he became solicitor for his native county, later serving a term (1906-07) in the Alabama House of Representatives. Quick of mind, sharp of tongue, he had himself chosen prosecuting attorney for his district, a position he held when he attended the Democratic National Convention as a delegate in Baltimore in 1912. As a small-town lawyer, he was nominated...