Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This expedition, which is operating under the joint auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Harvard University, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has located implements made by what was the oldest human race to inhabit the tracts of southeastern Asia...
...small cruisers, four destroyers, about half the battle fleet of Leftist Spain put out from its Cartagena base in southeastern Spain one night last week and, 70 miles offshore, encountered three cruisers, four destroyers, almost the entire battle fleet of Rightist Spain. In a running two-hour battle the Leftist destroyers buried a torpedo in the 10,000-ton Baleares, flagship of the Franco fleet, which burst into flames as the oil tanks caught fire. The Leftists then put back to Cartagena, the Rightists high-tailed out to sea and two British antipiracy ships were left to pick up some...
Curator of Southeastern Archaeology at the Peabody Museum from 1928-32, Claflin has held an honorary position in connection with this department since 1932. During the War he served as a captain in the 302d Field Artillery, 1917-19, while in college he was a member of the Student Council and captain of the hockey team...
...broke the preacher's arm. As a result of that, they joined their mother who was in the county workhouse on a larceny charge. When the brothers got out they ran away from school and set up a sort of Robin Hood headquarters in the Welsh Mountains in southeastern Pennsylvania...
...Governors of nine southeastern States (White of Mississippi, Leche of Louisiana, Chandler of Kentucky, Cone of Florida, Browning of Tennessee, Hoey of N. C., Johnston of S. C., Rivers of Georgia and Graves of Alabama 1 year ago banded together in a loosely formed "conference" to attract new industries to the South- principally by advertising their States and getting the ICC to fix lower Southern freight rates. Last week, Franklin Roosevelt looked up from his desk to see the smiling faces of seven of the Governors* plus those of his old friends, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina...