Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German, languages they picked up from former masters. They will cross themselves wildly, swear they are criollos (creoles), but they will be mestizos, sambos, and even mulattoes, distinctions the Creightons will soon learn. These servitors, and people even more wretched, such as the native Indians, live in the southeast section of the city, down towards Lake Texcoco, in huddles of squalid cabins and terraces. Their mortality is terrible in spite of the high altitude (7,415 ft. above sea level) and the fine climate (temperate...
...Literally "Mountain of the Druses:" a wild and inaccessible region some 60 miles southeast of Damascus...
...block was described in the inscription as the last hope of five survivors who were adrift in an open boat on August second, approximately 1000 miles southeast of Boston. The message, signed by five sets of initials, requested that Donald Murchie of Dedham be notified...
...water accumulating flotsam. The masses and banks of sargassum weed impeded Columbus for a fortnight on his first voyage to the New World (September, 1492). Improbable tales are told of ships embedded permanently; of seamonsters that make the spot their home. Smaller sargassum drifts are found north of Hawaii, southeast of New Zealand, southwest of Australia...
...days, the fleet will be on its own, relying on itself entirely for fuel, for food. At Pago Pago, the ships will refuel from their own tankers-an operation that, it is hoped, will take no more than twelve hours-and again the fleet will bear away, to the southeast. The cruiser squadron headed by the Seattle with three Admirals aboard- Coontz, Cole and Leigh-will go to Melbourne, Australia. The battle fleet, headed by the California under Admiral S. S. Robison, will go to Sydney, New Zealand. Later, a light cruiser squadron will go on from Melbourne to Hobart...