Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 20, Science; it may interest Dr. DeSilva to know that the natives of Madagascar (where I recently spent several years), having no word for ''right" and "left" must say, "hand me that gourd to the northwest of you-pass me that pot to the southeast of you." Thus through many generations they have developed an uncanny sense of direction. After hours of night marching over ridges, down ravines, through swamps, I have seen my porters arrive at a strange village, in a strange neighborhood, squat down to cook their rice and manioc, and immediately begin their...
...acres of unimproved land, Mr. Cutter had reason to wonder what effect the new Hoover policy of non-pro- tection would have throughout Central America. He was less concerned about Nicaragua where United Fruit's holdings are smallest (some 10,000 acres in bananas on the southeast coast near Bluefields), than he was about such countries as Honduras with 95,300 acres in banana cultiva- tion, Guatemala with 21,442 acres, Costa Rica with 27,228 acres in Cacao. Though the United Fruit had exercised its own form of diplomacy in these countries when civil trouble arose, it was always...
...third, and fourth floors of the new wing. From the dining hall, a covered passage will lead through what is now D entry into the quadrangle of McKinlock Hall. A small hallway will connect the present Common Room with this passage, the little doorway beside the fireplace in the southeast corner of the room, being the entrance. Thus one may pass directly from the Common Room into the dining hall...
...considerable section has been cut away from the hill which lies between the southeast corner of Widener Library making a jagged escarpment more than a dozen feet high through the bed rock. This will be levelled off and steps or terraces planted with shrubbery will be constructed. It is hoped that these operations will be completed, and the ground covered with grass at the time of occupation of the new dormitories...
Fertilizer in the Southeast...