Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...year in California is divided almost equally between the prolonged drought of the summer and the long rains in the months that correspond to the Eastern winter. The certainty with which the general character of the weather can be predicted for weeks ahead makes the farmers to a great degree, independent of the weather, and makes farming simple and easy. The absence of snow or frost makes travelling possible throughout the year, and the owners of estates, hampered by very little care of their crops, may leave their lands at will. As a result, the men are not obliged...
...more accurate and fine geological mapping. This region is a very important subject of study, since it illustrates many different rock formations. The structure of these formations has never been carefully worked out, and on the interpretation of this structure depends many important questions in the geological history of Eastern Massachusetts...
Anyone who has lived in the far West or in the valley of the Mississippi notices at once the amount of detail in eastern scenery, a detail quite lacking from the simple structure of the great plains. Not only is the rock formation varied and interesting, but an additional attraction lies in the fact that it is only a short time from a geological point of view since an ice-cap existed over all this region. Traces of it are too plain to be for a moment doubted. When the ice-sheet receded northward, the streams which came from under...
...Deschamps has written a number of books. Two are upon his eastern explorations--"Sur les routes d' Asie" (Colin et cie., 1894), and "La Grece d' aujourd' hui" (Colin et cie., 1892). "Marivaux" (Hachette et cie., 1897) is a critical literary essay, while "Le malaise de la democratie" (Colin et cie., 1899) is a recent political essay. His most ambitious work is a series of treatises in five volumes, entitled "La vie et les livres" (Colin et cie., 1894-97). M. Deschamps has also written a novel "Champfleury...
Longwood Tournament--M. D. Whitman (holder) defeated D. F. Davis (challenger,) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. Eastern Championship Doubles: Hackett and Allen defeated Whitman and Wright...