Word: southeastern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like Italians or the people from Southeastern Europe, why do you not say so and shut them out entirely? During the years that I have been traveling through the United States I have met persons of all nationalities, and I have met good and bad ones in all of them, even in my own nationality, which used to be Swedish...
...long been held with fair unanimity among scientists, that the birthplace of genuine man was probably in southeastern Asia, or somewhere on a belt stretching northwest to England. No traces of really ancient humans had been found in America, and the Western Hemisphere was believed to have been uninhabited by men until people from Asia, over the Bering Strait, by Mongoloid stock, ancestors of the Eskimo and Indians. Many supposedly ice-age human remains in the U. S., when closely investigated, have turned out to be comparatively recent Indians. This is true of the skeletons discovered last year...
...Until 1882 immigration from northwestern Europe was almost all our immigration, and 1882 (with less than 600,000 such immigrants) was the peak of that immigration which declined irregularly but continually to about 200,000 annually before the War. On the other hand, it was not until 1886 that southeastern Europe furnished 100,000 immigrants in a year. It never went below that mark until the War, and contributed between 500,000 and 1,000,000 annually from 1902 to 1914. Hence it can be appreciated why, although quotas are nominally reduced one-third by the Johnson bill, it cuts...
...short but very cold wave which swept the Southeastern States, especially Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, has at least blown someone some good. Discouraged cotton planters through that section, who, during the 1923 crop season, saw the boll weevil destroy their crops, are beginning to wonder if the cold snap has reduced the insect ravage. In the past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure...
...more technical talk was given by Hans Kurath to the phonetics group of the Association. He endeavored to prove that the dialectic differences between the various sections of the United States originated in the regional dialects of the British Isles. Thus New England derives its speech largely from southeastern England?though the influence of Ireland has been a very disturbing one during the past few generations. Professor Kurath began with a discussion of mid-Western pronunciation...