Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advancing Fish. In the 19th Century only a few cod were caught off southwestern Greenland. Now they are schooling far north of the Arctic Circle, where grateful Greenlanders and Eskimos are hauling them up by the ton. Many times in geological history, over long periods of years, the ice has piled up in the north and crunched down into the temperate zones...
...death to the art of santos-making. The Archbishop decreed, when he arrived at Santa Fe in 1851, that the barbaric santos be destroyed, and replaced by conventional images and chromes imported from Lamy's native France. More than a thousand santos-today mostly to be found in southwestern museums-survived the Archbishop...
...days to get a wage of 94? daily. As a result of the stoppage, the rice ration in New Delhi was cut from twelve to eight ounces. In New Delhi 100,000 children were out of school because of a teachers' strike (87% of Indians are illiterate). In southwestern India even the aboriginal Warli tribesmen refused to perform farm work, tried to chase landlords off the land...
...Emperor, Wu Ti (B.C. 140-87). The Manchu Emperor Ch'ien Lung waged savage war against the Miao in the 18th Century, but there has been no violent friction since, except for a brief outbreak in 1832. The tribesmen live mainly in the hills of far southwestern China. Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes. Yi and Miao women are heavily bejeweled with amber...
Sports editor Clark Porteous, from the staff of the Memphis Press Scimitar, holds track records at Southwestern University (class of '34) in the 2 mile (9.28) mile (4.18) half mile (1.55 and quarter (50 sec.) He specializes now in long distance commuting from Hingham; which is South...