Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago Dr. Grover Carlton Emmons, a mild-mannered Southern Methodist who had held pastorates in the West and Southwest, became secretary of Home Missions, Hospitals and General Work for his church's Board of Missions. Unsure what his general work was supposed to be, Dr. Emmons finally decided to publish a devotional periodical. He planned one. and found a name for it when he heard a Richmond minister mention "the Upper Room"* in a sermon...
...been the vanguard of his team's victorious procession over their ten opponents this season. Against Southern Methodist last week little Davey led a strategic attack that not only gave Coach Dutch Meyer's Horned Frogs a 20-to-7 victory but the championship of the Southwest Conference as well. Its work done, Texas Christian sat back, basked in its record of 254 points and 3,593 yards gained this season, wondered if it would get a bid to the Rose Bowl...
...troops continued to press out from Hankow, where some 5,300 captured Chinese soldiers are soon to erect a memorial to commemorate the Japanese conquest. At week's end Japanese forces, driving southward along the Canton-Hankow rail line, had captured the strategic city of Yochow, 122 miles southwest of Hankow, and the northeastern gateway to Hunan Province where Chiang Kai-shek has established new military headquarters...
...hours the five men hung lashed to the rigging, scanning the horizon. Then, early on October 1 they spied a vessel steering southwest through the high running sea. Closer and closer it came, finally hove to less than a mile off. Frantic, the wrecked sailors waved their jackets, made out men sizing up their plight from the newcomer's bridge. On her bows they could see illegible characters and the familiar word Maru,* which all Japanese ships bear. Then this Maru steamed away toward Europe...
...most famed of the Norse voyages was that of adventurous young Leif Ericsson ("Leif the Lucky") who started from Norway to Greenland in 1000 A.D., but-according to Historian William Hovgaard-"was driven far to the southwest, and finally made land on the coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where...