Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MATT MANN'S MICHIGAN SWIMMERS' DEFEAT OF KIPHUTH'S YALE NATATORS FEB. 28 TIME. RESULT NO SURPRISE LOCALLY AS MICHIGAN TRAINED IN HEALTH-GIVING CLIMATE OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA DURING CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS...
After a month of butting against stubborn Chinese defenders at a dozen points along China's Yellow River, from the Great Wall pass in northwest Shansi to Chengchow, 300 miles to the southeast in Honan, Japanese forces finally secured a toehold on the Chinese-held south bank of the river at Szeshui, Honan Province, Chinese sources admitted last week. Main Japanese objective since their December capture of Nanking has been to sever the vital east-west lifeline of central China, the Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow...
MOGUK, BURMA, Dec. 22 (By Pony Express to London)--On the banks of the Irrawaddy river, in Upper Burma, the American Southeast Asiatic Expedition has found a prehistoric link between two of Asia's most ancient stone age cultures...
Centre of the damage was the Santa Ana River, a gravel-filled gulley which usually dribbles placidly through the Santa Ana Mountains, 35 miles southeast of the city, across 20 miles of farming country to the sea just south of Long Beach. Last week the Santa Ana burst a dam at Fairmont Lake, roared five feet deep through the streets of Riverside. On the flatland it became a muddy torrent whose waters spread out ten miles wide, turning orchards, farms and villages into a churning sea in which 15 people drowned...
...southeast tip of Spain the city of Cartagena lies against the base of great treeless hills, facing its superb harbor, its two great forts and the Mediterranean. There in July 1873, in the fifth month of the first Spanish Republic, a group of revolutionaries hoisted the red flag. Because they could not find a pure red one they used the flag of Turkey, with its crescent stained out in blood. The frigates lying in port joined the revolt. From Madrid the central Republican Government, run by high-minded incompetents, badgered by conspiracies Right & Left, sent troops against the city...