Word: southward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with earthquake potentialities, he then reminded the world. Earth is faulty and under cracking stress all along the west coast of North and South America (with an easterly loop which includes the West Indies). The terrestrial weakness stretches across Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Kamchatka, whence it passes southward through the Japanese, Philippine and South Pacific archipelagoes...
...play as well as fight. Last month Japan revealed that she was at work planning naval maneuvers that match Fleet Problem No. 14 in size and importance, send cold chills down the spines of U. S. strategists. The Japanese Grand Fleet, Naval Minister Osumi announced, is going "southward of the islands composing the territory of The Empire" in August instead of October. This statement was taken to mean that battle practice will be held among the Caroline and Marshall Islands which Japan took under mandate from Germany after the War. In that event Guam will lie in the thick...
...campus proper, on University Heights overlooking the Harlem River. Here, doubtless, he will play badminton, at which he excels, and be accessible and agreeable to all who visit him. He will find his students far different from the corn-fed stalwarts of Illinois, the more so as he goes southward among N. Y. U.'s five scattered major centres. On the Heights there are: fraternity houses and dormitories; a genial campus policeman named John Quigley who was a fast friend of the late Sir Thomas Lipton; the famed Hall of Fame...
...never seen before. Not since 1908 had such a bird appeared in the city, and it had arrived on shipboard. Most finders promptly called or hurried to the Bronx Zoo, learned the fallen strangers were little auks, cousins of the least auklet and the extinct great auk. Winging southward from their Arctic loomeries,they had been blown inland by a 65-m. p. h. gale...
...Souls' Protestant Episcopal Church, at 114th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, was once all white. The southward spread of Harlem has turned it Negro by 300 souls to 50. Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon the rector, a lank, thin-lipped onetime curate of Trinity Church named Rev. Rollin Dodd. The vestry ordered Rector Dodd to cease encouraging the Negroes. When he refused the vestry asked him to resign, stopped his salary. When this failed they had the church closed, "for repairs...