Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There remained the vast desert heft of the rest of Arabia. To prevent even this from attaining true unity, it was divided into various territories: the Kingdom of the Hejaz, the principalities of Asir and Yemen, the British-controlled Hadramaut, Oman on the tip of the Persian gulf, and Nejd, the great central core. What they did not reckon on was the mettle of the man who had already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better...
...finally emerged into the Indian Ocean. An echo-recording apparatus in the chartroom measured the time required for the sound to bounce back from the sea floor. With echo-sounding gear Expedition Leader R. B. Seymour Sewell and his staff systematically charted the ocean floor. In the Gulf of Aden they found ten ranges of theretofore unknown submarine hills. On the bottom of the Indian Ocean they discovered two great mountain chains, with a deep valley between, and in one place a lofty plateau. Lieut.-Colonel Sewell had no doubt that the drowned mountains once topped large exposed land masses...
Those three War-born little states on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania-would hardly seem a menace to anybody. But they are close to the heart of Soviet Russia. Russia's door to the Baltic is a coast line on the Gulf of Finland only 300 mi. long, and the three little states overlook that channel down the Baltic. The least Russia can do is to be a little friendlier to them than anybody else is. Last week Maxim Litvinoff, roly-poly Commissar for Foreign Affairs, met in Moscow with the plenipotentiaries...
...Great Lakes, spread over the Atlantic seaboard from Labrador to North Carolina. Some turned south into Tennessee where they were stopped by a wave of Sioux pushing straight across the country from the southwest. From the southwest also came the Muskhogean and proto-Muskhogean peoples who trickled into the Gulf States (Choctaw, Creek, Chicksaw). From the Ozark Mountains in Missouri the Iroquois crossed the Mississippi River. Tennessee and Kentucky, split into two groups. One turned north and settled around Lakes Erie and Ontario. The other (Cherokee) kept straight ahead until they reached the North Carolina mountains. Mapmaker Bushnell thinks...
...happened. Then he exposed the vessels to strong sunlight for five minutes. Activated by the light, the dye attacked the cancer cells, withered them in 30 to 180 minutes. But certain normal cells imbedded in the cancer tissue lived. Researcher Menke's heart leaped with hope, despite the gulf between destroying disease in a test tube and destroying it in a human body. Last week, reporting his discovery to the American Association of Anatomists in Philadelphia, he was careful to emphasize that he had found no cancer cure. "It merely provides," said he, "a new line of attack...