Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...included among the 64 low scorers who qualified for the six rounds of match-play elimination. Tyro Vines would have promptly driven back to Pasadena (or perhaps on to the national tennis matches at Forest Hills) were it not for the fact that he had taken along a young Southern California tank-town actor named Pat Abbott to keep him company on his trans continental motor trip. Pat Abbott was still in the tournament...
...smaller streaks may be observed in one day, forming a roof over the entire continent. Plotted on a meteorological map they resemble a mass of partly coiled snakes. Although the greater area of each tongue remains at uniform specific humidities, the extremities tend to undergo changes. At the southern ends of the dry tongues heat is lost and dry air descends from the upper regions. The northern ends of the wet tongues tend to condense, pass mois ture to the dry tongues. As the tongues exchange heat and moisture and as atmospheric currents follow the rotation of the earth, transverse...
Since 1931 Henry Doherty has picked up six Southern resort hotels, five clubs, and thousands of odd lots at postboom prices...
Like frost traceries upon a window pane, 81,000 miles of pipelines fan out over the U. S. from the nation's three chief natural gas fields: 1) in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky; 2) Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana; 3) Southern California. Last year these capillaries of modern commerce carried so much gas (1,336,863,000,000 cu. ft.) that Congress passed the Natural Gas Act giving the Federal Power Commission authority over interstate pipelines similar to what it already had over interstate transmission of electricity. Last week FPC received from Kansas Pipe Line & Gas Co. the first...
...Civil War no one knew which way the Border States would go if war came. They vacillated, compromised, stood on one political foot and then the other, kept the country on pins and needles till the last moment. The literary inheritors of this Border-State vacillation are the Southern regionalists: Poets Allen Tate. John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson. Novelists Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). John Peale Bishop, et al., from the divided States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. Subtle, urbane and inexhaustibly energetic, they straddle the question of the South's inevitable industrialization, preach a Southern culture modeled...