Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maude. Explorer Roald Amundsen's schooner Maude, icebound all last winter in the region of the New Siberian Islands, southwest of Bering Strait, in a fruitless attempt to drift over the North Pole, was reported last week at East Cape, Siberia, free of the ice and bound for Nome, Alaska. Though equipped with radio, the Maude has not been heard from directly for months. Presumably she was been withholding gasoline from her power generators, for use in crashing the floes. Hearing of her return, Explorer Amundsen, in Copenhagen, conferring with German dirigible experts upon a proposed pole-flight...
...striking feature in the July 16 report was the poor condition indicated for the Texas crop; the condition figure for this leading cotton state sank from 64 in the earlier report to only 56 in the later one, due to the continuance of drought in the Southwest. Also, the yield per acre in pounds for Texas fell between the reports from...
...masses and banks of sargassum weed impeded Columbus for a fortnight on his first voyage to the New World (September, 1492). Improbable tales are told of ships embedded permanently; of seamonsters that make the spot their home. Smaller sargassum drifts are found north of Hawaii, southeast of New Zealand, southwest of Australia...
...which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...
...Nottingham, 40 years ago, David Herbert Lawrence scavenged crumbs of scholarship as he could. An unusual mother aided in this. He taught, wrote verse, published Sons and Lowers in 1913, his first important novel. He has wandered the earth as few men do-especially Australia, Mexico and the southwest U. S. In England, lately, he has been closely associated with John Middleton Murry, the late Katherine Mansfield's husband, in the publication of Murry's review, The Adelphi...