Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwest of Madrid the Leftists launched a furious offensive, intended if successful to cut those Rightist supply lines which run in from Portugal. At latest reports this offensive, designed to distract Generalissimo Francisco Franco from his onslaught upon Barcelona last week, had gained little...
...harbor was further completed, that Crescent City would require $4,500,000 worth of dredging to be usable. Civic groups such as the Portland Chamber of Commerce indicated that they did not care which line won so long as a railroad was built to the coast through southwest Oregon...
Japanese forces in China were not only still advancing in the "Hindenburg Line" sector last week, but had so nearly encircled Chinese forces in southwest Shansi numbering about 100,000, that dispatches called them "trapped," said another major butchery impended...
...poem of U. S. mountains as Pare Lorentz' documentary movie, The River (TIME, Nov. 8), is a hard poem of U. S. rivers. In Desert Near Santa Fe he caught with a series of fine washes, quickly dried with the brush, the 90-mile, lucent light of the Southwest; in Color Splendor he framed the broad Shenandoah Valley. Critics who doubt the permanency of soft poems noted that in at least one painting, Savage Trees, he swirled a brush full of rich color in a freer, more furious style...
...president of his own company in Toronto, but he is working at present for someone else, who prefers to remain anonymous. Using sensitive variometers (containing magnetic needles responding to large masses of metal), he went over the ground, made a "magnetic profile." This showed two humps several hundred feet southwest of the rim, the larger covering an area 2,000 by 1,500 ft. He believes that the meteoritic clumps corresponding to these humps can be reached by sinking a shaft straight down through rock undisturbed by the meteorite's passage, then drifting sidewise through the troublesome watery strata...