Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground, last week, Rightist troops straightened out the southern end of their corridor to the sea. At week's end, Catalan Leftist troops were on the offensive near the hydraulic power station at Tremp, on the Catalan front...
...Glovers (who defeated the New York Golden Glovers in the annual inter-city championships two months ago) and a picked team of European amateurs. The Chicago team of eight (topnotchers in each of the eight divisions of pugilism) were the survivors of 23,000 aspirants from 26 midwestern and southern States who entered the first preliminaries four months before. The Europeans (four Germans, one Italian, Pole, Irishman and Finn) were the cream of the continent. They had two Olympic champions: Heavyweight Herbert Runge of Germany and Bantamweight Ulderico Sergo of Italy...
...gently rolling hills of Southern Connecticut, within an hour or two's easy ride from any Manhattan bar, lies the greatest concentration of literary and intellectual celebrities and near-celebrities in the U. S. Some live there all year round, others appear in the summer. Tilling of the soil is widespread; as a topic of conversation it is universal. It was inevitable that one day from this bucolic Parnassus should come forth an urbane country weekly. This week it came forth: the Connecticut Nutmeg, an 8-page tabloid with no pictures except two large nutmegs on either side...
...beaches) or by whip-stocking down slantwise from the shore. Politically, it is more complicated. Standard Oil of California owns or controls virtually all of Huntington Beach and a good share of Long Beach and Wilmington Beach. Standard is as much of a political issue in California as Southern Pacific was 25 years ago. Standard's foes in the State Legislature, led by excitable Senator Culbert Olson, hotly denounce Governor Frank Merriam whenever he shows what they regard as partiality for Standard. Year ago, when a bill was passed prohibiting whip-stocking off Huntington Beach, Culbert Olson...
...debate with Yale in the Boston Public Library is slated for the fall, as well as trips to Southern and Western colleges. The intercollegiate group will be restricted to 25 debaters, Ebb said...