Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fossum forts, southwest of Oslo, Norse garrisons fought bitterly. Elsewhere the Nazi juggernaut rolled comfortably from town to town, in its own lorries and commandeered busses. With the occupation of Sarpsborg and Halden it reached the lower Swedish border and threatened Sweden's flank behind her main southern defense zone...
Molde & Åndalsnes. One hundred twenty-five miles southwest, other landings put the Allies in position to send a force north to attack Trondheim from the opposite side. But here there were also bigger stakes to play for. Presumably from these landings came the force that was reported to have cut its way across country to Hamar, there rallied the retiring Norse 65 miles outside Oslo...
Sound works of fiction centred in the Southwest are few & far between. The grandeur of that country, its translucent and heady atmosphere, have had a superficializing effect on many artists and writers. Of the few serious writers able to work in New Mexico with a steady mind, Paul Horgan is one. Author of the Harper Prize Novel, The Fault of Angels (1933), Horgan has held the job of librarian at New Mexico Military Institute since 1926. Prolific, uneven, liable to fits of preciosity, his writing is at its thoughtful best in Figures in a Landscape...
...contained in those days!" But if Horgan is adept at recreating action and atmosphere from records, he is no slouch at direct observation. If he can reconstruct the fortunes of a German family from one of the strange, castle-like old mansions to be found here & there in the Southwest, he can also-as he does in the best story of the book-write a penetrating tale of a modern high-school love affair and its aftermath...
...soon as Divisional examinations are over, a Harvard flotilla will surge up the Charles River in an effort to find a "Southwest Passage" to Wellesley, it was announced today by the Harvard CRIMSON Athletic Association, sponsor of the expedition...