Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilgrim Fathers first settled the northeast corner of what is now the United States. Spaniards were first in the southeastern and southwestern corners. But the Northwest Corner, as everyone knows, was first occupied by Paul Bunyan, the great logger. He went there to get milk of the Western whale to cure the mysterious illness of Babe, his blue ox. Puget Sound is the grave he dug for Babe when he thought the ox would die, and Washington's Cascade Mountains are the dirt Paul and his loggers heaved up in their digging...
...last week a southeastern Kentucky farmer named O. E. Taylor stood up in the Federal court room at London and addressed the judge. Farmer Taylor said that back in 1929 he worked for General Motors, hurt his right arm. The arm still aches at times, and when it aches Mr. Taylor hates corporations. Therefore, he did not feel that he should sit as a juror in the case about to be tried. In the same jury box briefly occupied by Mr. Taylor, Factory Employe Ralph Mays was asked about his wife, said "She's a Payne from Goose Creek...
...rural poor. The lesson was equally onerous for young Mr. McMahon and for defense counsel, who included former Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson of Louisville and Alabama Utilities Attorney Forney Johnston. Thanks to a remarkable prevalence of sickness among talesmen's womenfolk, and the paucity of southeastern Kentuckians who were not in some fashion dependent upon the soft coal industry, the lawyers questioned and discarded over 250 talesmen before they could agree upon a jury...
...Southeastern Asia. Dr. Hellmut...
...whole Asiatic coast as far west as the Indian Ocean. These old men of China and Java are considered the most ancient of human fossils-500,000 to 1,000,000 years old. Dr. de Terra now believes that the oldest toolmaking culture in Asia originated in the southeastern part of the continent, spread from there in widening circles...