Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ellsworth Huntington, famous Yale University geographer, who has pioneered in work on the effect of climate on man, will give two courses entitled "Climate and Man," and "Nature and Man in Asia...
people have rejected internationalism. His deductions are that: 1) this invariable rejection meant "a recognition of the hard fact that the United States, either alone or in any coalition, did not possess the power to force peace on Europe and Asia, to assure the establishment of democratic and pacific governments there, or to provide the social and economic underwriting necessary . . ."; 2) the President and State Department should therefore be less ambitious in their conduct of foreign relations...
Against Beard's deprecation of U. S. foreign trade, Buell quotes figures to show that imports (rubber, tungsten, etc.) from Asia and the East Indies are "essential" to U. S. economy, that exports of U. S. mass production industries (e.g., typewriters) account for a high percentage of important U. S. production. With respect to foreign investments, he points out that in 1938 they brought a high average of interest...
...most elastic words. It is as likely to title a book about a bus trip or stamp collecting as about Tibet. Books have even been written about adventures in thinking. But among any season's adventure books, year in & out, the majority tell about Africa and Asia. No exception, last month's crop was somewhat better than average...
...weather on history, on the possibility of a new ice age, on the chances of a sun explosion, on machines run by atomic energy, on penetrating 40 miles into the earth. Naturally such adventuring sometimes goes Wellsian. But his book opens genuine new horizons for adventure. With Africa and Asia rapidly becoming as familiar as the Lincoln Highway, new horizons are needed...