Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the South into Texas and Oklahoma went St. Swithin's trouble. The San Saba River (southwest Texas) flooded an area 100 miles long, 50 miles wide, making ranchers swim for their lives, when 14 inches of rain fell in a week...
...Midnight on the Desert, an account of his stay in Arizona in 1936, Author Priestley presented one of the most excited and semi-mystical rhapsodies on that section that has appeared since English writers, with strange literary consequences, started wintering in the U. S. Southwest. Even the boldest guess could not have anticipated the strange desert influence that breathes from The Doomsday Men- a lively mixture of adventure, mystery and improbabilities, free of literary significance but heavily weighted with a moral regarding the curse of social pessimism...
...these circumstances, Son Elmer Henry Maytag, president of the company, might have expected to escape labor trouble. But another name is also great in Jasper County. John Llewellyn Lewis was born 50 miles southwest of Newton 58 years ago, has in Jasper County much strength and one of the oldest locals of his United Mine Workers. So last year beneficent Maytag, caught in the union wash, signed a contract with C. I. O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America...
...Favor of F. D. R. in general are: 1) the Southwest (91.6%) and the Southeast (80.5%) which like him on every point; 2) the Mountain States (58.6%) which like him on his nine popular points...
...More non-virgin boys came from villages than from cities. "It is still the village girls who fall an easy prey, but it is the village boys who seduce them." Most promiscuous of the girls, daughter of an insurance man in the Southwest, had had 20 affairs in two years. Said one girl: "My chief reason for yielding is that boys are so insistent and I have no good argument against...