Word: balkan
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...find plants suitable for New England, to replace the many varieties killed here by the sovere cold of the past two winters, officials of the Arnold Arboretum are trying out for the first time in New England certain hardy types of lilac, holly, and wild apple imported from the Balkan states of Europe...
...Edgar Anderson spent the summer of 1934 in the Balkans for the purpose of collecting plants and seeds in Bulgaria, Roumania, and Yugo-Slavia. The climate of the Balkan region resembles closely the climate of Boston and it seemed probable that the Balkan strains of such plants as Ivy, Yew, and Box, coming from a climate similar to ours would prove more adsptable here than the more or less tender strains that have already been imported from northern Europe...
traveled across the Balkan Peninsula in his royal train to hunt ducks with Yugoslavia's King Peter...
EXPRESS TO THE EAST-A. den Doolard -Smith & Haas ($2.50). In the maze of intrigue and assassination known as Balkan politics, the activities of the Vetrechnata Makedonska Revoliutsionna Organizatsia have given rise to strange legends. Originally a conspiratorial group seeking independence for Macedonia, V. M. R. O. organized uprisings against the Turks, bombed trains, spread a net of terror that reached into most European countries. Last spring the known history of V. M. R. 0. was recounted by Stoyan Christowe in Heroes and Assassins, Last week U. S. readers were offered a translation of a remarkable Dutch novel in which...
...necessarily a proof of Greek fickleness, this was all Balkan politics, true to modern Greece which since the War has produced six revolutions, four dictators and 17 governments. Even last week Greeks had no great personal admiration for George, who has spent his twelve years of exile lion-hunting in Africa, toadying to British society, and getting himself divorced by Queen Elizabeth, sister of Rumania's King Carol, who has himself divorced George's sister Helen...