Word: inland
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Higher education is becoming increasingly centralized. About 4% of all U. S. colleges enroll about 40% of the students. The geographical centre of higher education, having moved steadily inland from the Atlantic seaboard since 1880, has crossed the Indiana-Illinois line and is some 15 miles southeast of Urbana...
...joint Board of Engineers of the U. S. and Canada announced last week the results of the most exhaustive research on the problem of inland waterways that has yet been attempted. Significant items in their report...
SAILING ACROSS EUROPE-Negley Farson-Century ($3.50). Everyone knows that Europe's air system now reaches every important city and many an unimportant. But who knew that for centuries it has been possible to travel inland by boat from Rotterdam, climb the Rhine, get into the Danube and debouch upon the Black Sea? The key link is the Ludwig Canal, begun by Charlemagne 1,200 years ago. With 101 locks in 107 miles it climbs out of Bavaria through the clouds of the Frankischer Jura mountains and deposits you in Austria. . The German Consulate at London had never heard...
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: "I was attended by physicians in Tokyo for a bad cold last week. Recovered, I left for Kioto* with my wife, Princess Louise. Later we will tour the Inland Sea on a Japanese warship and visit Korea...
...wounded, since neither army was equipped with a medical corps. Dutifully the Tulsa steamed out to tidy up the battlefield, found no battlefield to tidy at the spot designated by President Chamorro, returned to Corinto. Subsequent reports declared the battle to have taken place some 30 miles inland...