Word: lowlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balkan Sworl. South of the Carpathians, Germany and her opponents face another geography. Four centuries ago when the Turk was rampant in southeastern Europe, he scared the life out of Christendom by pushing northwest, up the few (Continued on p. 35) narrow lowland channels through the sworling mountains of the Balkans to the Hungarian Plain and the walls of Vienna itself. In World War I, the Allies hoped to emulate the Turk but failed at the start in failing to force the Dardanelles. Lacking support from British and French troops, the Serbians and Rumanians found themselves penned up between...
...living have been more beloved by their friends or maligned by their acquaintances than Ramsay MacDonald. A sentimental Lowland Scot who loved to write sad verses for his friends,* he was a founder of the British Labor Party, the first person to bring it to a position of importance in British affairs, three times Prime Minister of Great Britain and an intimate personal friend of King George V. Yet "traitor" was a word hurled at him over & over throughout the last 20 years. Because he spoke out loudly against British entry in the World War in 1914 he was ostracized...
General zoological collections have been procured for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard from the mountain forests of Northern Siam and British North Borneo. Work on the highland and lowland forests of primate collections and the detailed study and correlation of information procured in the field remain to be done...
James Keen, 26-year-old photographer for the Associated Press, has a reputation for always striving for the unusual. Assigned to cover the Ohio-Mississippi flood last January, he spied a refugee Arkansas mother suckling her baby in a relief station, took a human interest picture called "Lowland Madonna" which won him wide praise and Editor & Publisher honors. Three weeks ago Photographer Keen was rushed to Warren County, Ga., whose farmers complained that Glascock County cotton growers were wooing away their Negro cotton pickers with higher wages and whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P. Hogan had acknowledged that some Warren...
...Associated Press rejoiced, for Prizemen Lindsay, Keen & O'Haire are all A. P. men—a clean sweep. But before Winners Lindsay and Keen could collect their $100 and $50 prizes (to be taken either in cash or photographic equipment), an unfortunate complication arose: Working on the Levee and Lowland Madonna were declared ineligible. Editor & Publisher suddenly remembered that the Ohio-Mississippi flood occurred this year, not last, and that the contest had been limited to 1936 pictures. Apologizing handsomely, Editor & Publisher moved J. P. Morgan Listens up into first place and named two others for second and third. These...