Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been straightened out. It is also true that there is but one semblance of a road in the Republic, outside the Firestone plantation, but the Government is now building a thoroughfare through the interior to the French border and another road parallel with the coast to the southeastern boundary...
Today typhus is endemic in the Southeastern U. S., Mexico, Ireland, the Balkans, the Malay States...
Scene of Judgment Day is a courtroom in "a capital of Southeastern Europe." Accused of attempting the life of the Dictator-Minister-President, three alleged members of the People's Party are brought before the High Court. One is a young German who sits soddenly with hanging head, occasionally mumbling nonsense. "Has he been drugged?" one of the judges asks. Another is an uncowed, sharp-tongued individual named George Khitov (Walter Greaza), who denounces the accusation as a frame-up, the witnesses as tools of the National Party. When the beefy, ranting Minister of Culture & Enlightenment (Romaine Callender) appears...
...four-year study of church attendance. In 1,000 Congregational churches, said he, pews were 70% vacant. Only 42% of the communicants supported their churches by attendance or otherwise. Attendance varies inversely with the size of communities, the urban Eastern States averaging the lowest (36%) and the rural Southeastern States the highest...
...champion. South. From Kansas, where lives the inventor of basketball, Dr. James A. Naismith, went jovial, jowled Adolph Rupp to teach the University of Kentucky boys how to play. He taught them so well that in three years they won 64 out of 72 games, and last year the Southeastern Conference. Last week, undefeated for the season, his team moved toward another championship by beating Alabama 26-to-21. In the Southwest, Texas Christian boasts: 1) League leadership; 2) a forward named Richard Allison, 6 ft. 5 in., 200 lb., who has scored 86 points this season. Rocky Mountain. Even...