Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months little military activity has taken place on Spain's Madrid front. Last week, at several points southeast of Madrid on the Jarama River, Leftists repulsed small isolated Rightist punches. To some observers these attacks were regarded as feelers preliminary to a new Rightist offensive aimed at encircling Spain's former capital...
...reward for the rescues its ten ships so frequently effect. Last week, as luck would have it, the U. S. Liner American Traveler was just 70 miles off when fire broke out in the hold of the 21,046-ton, U. S.-bound Hamburg-American liner Deutschland 200 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. At the Deutschland's SOS the Traveler doubled back, stood by with the Norwegian Europe until the Germans whipped the fire...
SHANGHAI, Tuesday, Oct. 11--Gen. Chang Fa-Kwei, China's famed "ironsides" commander, claimed the greatest victory of the Chinese-Japanese war today, asserting that he had virtually wiped out the Japanese 101st division from Tokyo in a series of smashing counter attacks on the Nanchang front southeast of Hankow...
...firmly described a rainbow which he saw on the night of June 16, while crossing from Nassau to Miami. Said he: "Tumultuous trade wind clouds towered to gigantic heights and there were occasional squalls of rain. About 11 o'clock, when the moon was well up in the southeast sky, the rainbow appeared in the northwest, where a thunderstorm was in progress. The prismatic colors were fairly distinguishable. The arc was complete, the two ends dipping into...
Residents of Port Orford, Ore. made a great to-do last week about a mislaid meteorite. Somewhere in the wilderness to the southeast lay a huge clod of stone and metal. Exactly where it was, only one person thought he knew. In 1859 Dr. John Evans, a U. S. Government geologist, stumbled on a meteoritic body, almost entirely buried, whose mass he estimated at 22,000 Ib. A 25-gram sample was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The meteorite was classified as a pallasite-a mixture of olivine (green magnesium iron silicate) and metallic iron. Unfortunately, before...