Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...melting pot of South America. Article XXV of the Argentine Constitution provides: "The Federal Government shall encourage European immigration and shall not restrict, limit, or place any tax upon the entry into Argentine territory of foreigners who come with the object of cultivating the soil and engaging in local industries...
...Pacific, it was provided that a plebiscite be eventually held in Tacna-Arica, to determine its final sovereignty. The signal diplomatic defeat of the Coolidge Administration has been their failure to arrange the holding of this plebiscite, under the auspices of General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. When local rivalries, dishonesties and backbitings were found to present unsurmountable obstacles, it was discovered that "Black Jack's" teeth needed expert U. S. attention (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and he sailed for home. Subsequently appearances have been patched up by Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who arranged for Chile...
...other Chinese forces, Feng's army has never lived by plunder. When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts. Delighted and dazzled, the local farmers are usually all too glad to barter rice and other produce for the soldier's work...
...story of the Deluge was probably an hysterical account of a local flood at Babylon. The world and the waters and the sky were not created in seven days. The picture of Moses on Mt. Sinai was probably the hallucination of one scared by a thunderclap...
...Earth. In comparison, the North Pole is light. Melting of South Polar ice may account for the axial wobbling that the Earth goes through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly, the Antarctic weather. Tremendous winds blow there, influencing the weather of the entire Earth. Cold ocean currents start there, crawl along the ocean floors to the North Pole where they curve upward to cool the relatively warm North Polar waters. Whatever in the Antarctic regions...