Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night passed as the world waited to see what Germany might do. Monday noon the answer came, not from Berlin or Iviza, but from Almeria, a small grape and orange-shipping port of military importance on Spain's southeastern corner, now jammed with noncombatant refugees from Rightist-held Malaga. Almeria had nothing to do with the raids on Mallorca, but Almeria is on the section of Spanish coast that the German navy legally patrols. At dawn following the Deutschland bombing, five Nazi warships flying Swas tika battle flags from their main trucks drew up off the harbor entrance. Flagship...
...from midnight of March 6. Each ship will fly in addition to its national flag a "neutral blue pennant with a yellow cross." Italy will patrol the eastern coast of Spain from the French frontier down past Barcelona and Valencia to Alicante. From that point Germany will patrol the southeastern coastline to Malaga. British ships will patrol from Malaga through the Strait of Gibraltar to the beginning of the Portuguese coastline. Over the Spanish-Portuguese land frontier 130 "international observers" will keep watch. French and British ships jointly will pick up the blockade on the northwest Spanish seas at Vigo...
...South, for basketball purposes, is divided into two conferences: Southern, which includes colleges in most of the Atlantic Coast States, and Southeastern, which includes colleges in the deep South and the Mississippi Valley. In each the championship is decided, not by the round-robin of scheduled games, but in a post-season tournament among the Conference leaders. Last week Washington & Lee beat North Carolina 29-to-19, a game that was important since both are sure to be in the Southern Conference tournament at Durham, N. C. March 5-7. Southeastern Conference's major game of the week...
...virtuoso of arboreal acrobatics, the gibbon is a small, flat-faced ape which inhabits southeastern Asia. It is a "key animal" in primate evolution because it is more at ease on two legs than any other ape or monkey, because of its cerebral affinities with man and the great anthropoid apes, and because of its well-developed social and monogamic habits. Yet less is known of the gibbon in its wild state than about any other primate of comparable importance. Therefore Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson. N. Y.) have organized an expedition to study this little...
...illegitimate baby, was jailed for his pains. Inside the stadium, encouraged by their lively 200-piece band, their live tiger mascot, Louisiana State's football team-which had already earned its lavish surroundings by a season of eight victories and one tie and its second consecutive Southeastern Conference title-celebrated the occasion, 33-to-0 against Tulane...