Word: southward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movements. In a twinkling, they patter up the steps and are embraced by the great carved doors which close behind them so quickly that it is impossible to view them in detail. But they will emerge again, board an orange streetcar again, demand transfers again, and rattle off again southward or eastward...
...last eight months, continued to keep the Chinese busy at one place, Kaifeng, while they suddenly last week resumed a halted offensive at another, this time along the Tientsin-Pukow railroad, 175 miles east of Kaifeng and 125 miles from the Yellow Sea. Japanese forces hurled themselves southward along the railway in an attempt to capture Suchow, strategic junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until some 30,000 were reported killed on both sides...
Frau Dollfuss, the widow of the murdered Chancellor, while loyal French friends kept saying she had escaped northward to Czechoslovakia under the personal escort of the French Minister, actually escaped southward to Hungary, reached Budapest in safety...
...Generalissimo Franco last week staged in central Aragón the widest offensive of Spain's 20-month-old war. During the first six days the Franco forces, behind the largest aerial concentration the war has seen, advanced along a 60-mile front, extending from Fuentes del Ebro southward to Montalban, recaptured Belchite and gained approximately 1,350 square miles of Leftist territory. Some 3,500 prisoners were taken, the Rightists announced, including 400 U. S. citizens of the Leftist Abraham Lincoln Battalion. At week's end one Rightist column was only about 45 miles from the Mediterranean...
Some hundreds or thousands of years before Christopher Columbus, a huge cluster of metallic meteorites-or a small comet-400 or 500 ft. in diameter and weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite...