Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Epidemiologists insist that world-wide plagues of disease begin in Asia and then work towards Europe and the Americas. So the League of Nations has placed health watchers in the principal Asiatic coast cities to report by wireless the local health status. These reports are compiled and then relayed to worried, watchful Western officials. But this influenza spread caught the League unawares by starting, apparently, in Spain, just as did the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Last week the League relayed wireless health reports of European, as well as of Occidental countries...
...Arctic plain in north Asia or America. Author Earl Rossman of Black Sunlight (1926) mentions that the last migration of the Alaskan lemmings (Lemmus migripen) occurred...
...first prize of $35 and a second of fifteen will be awarded by three judges, chosen from the University Faculty. These arbiters are: Langdon Warner '03. Fellow of the Fogg Art Museum for Research in Asia. Professor K.G.T. Webster '93, of the Department of English, and L.D. Peterkin Instructor and Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...
...This "sucuri" was an anaconda, water-dwelling member of the boa-constrictor family.* Far more ill-tempered than its cousins, the African boas and the pythons of Africa, Asia and Australia, it is the largest snake in the New World, third largest in all the world (after the reticulated and Indian pythons, which sometimes exceed ten yards in length...
Science, History, Philosophy ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT MAN Roy Chapman Andrews* - Putnam ($6). " Asia is the mother of the continents...