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Word: southwesterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...active politician, he worked hard through the American Legion for the Hoover nomination, campaigned through the Southwest, was the Hoovers' house guest at Inauguration. Favorite Hurley campaign expression: "A greater number of people have been happier under the American flag for a greater length of time than under the flag of any other nation." This phrase was ghost-written for him but, with characteristic onrushingness and vitality, he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hurley of War | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Unlike Negro blood, Indian blood carries no social stigma in the Southwest, provided it is from one of the five civilized tribes: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, Seminole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hurley of War | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...James Cash Penney. Famed as a livestock breeder, Mr. Penney includes as diversion large scale, scientific farming. Biggest of his farming projects is Foremost Dairy Products, Inc., organized last March, operating in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia. Last week the Penney herds expanded westward when Foremost merged with Southwest Dairy Products Co., which serves 120,000 square miles in the states of Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas. Annual sales volume of the new company will exceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

After being scored on by a long pass, Grubbs and Green of Texas Christian marched as to war against Southern Methodist. The 7-7 tie was enough to make the Christians champions of the southwest on their record. Utah's Rocky Mountaineers, winners in their conference, finished a perfect season by tumbling the Utah Aggies, 26-7. Nebraska-Big Six champions though tied by Missouri and Oklahoma-trounced eleven Iowa Statesmen made wild but not dangerous by six beatings in a row. Nebraska 31, Iowa State 12. Georgia's little bulldogs put on the snarl they wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Geology, when queried about the quake last night, stated that he believed its point of origin to have been the Fundian Fault Zone, in the Gulf of Maine. At this point there is a very ancient fracture in the earth's crust, extending from the Bay of Fundy, Southwest, to the region of Cape Ann. That zone has caused so many earthquakes in the last three centuries that whenever one is felt near Boston, it is suspected as being the cause. The last tremor was felt about Boston on January 7, 1925. Professor Mather believes that there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUAKE ROCKS CRUFT WIRELESS TOWERS | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

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