Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russian industrial region of the Don and charged with "counter revolutionary sabotage." Only two of these men have been released, despite the repeated protests of the German Government...
During the week Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, and his sister Princess Eudoxia, and his brother Prince Cyril visited the devastated region and spoke words...
...varieties. They had suffered from extreme cold in the highlands of Kenya and Tanganyika, had gathered grass seeds within sight of glaciers 200 feet thick, had faced down an elephant in a bamboo jungle, had brought back with them samples of 75% of all the forage grasses of the region. Their hope is to lengthen the season of green pastures throughout the land, thereby reducing the cost of livestock...
...back, he cannot be cut off by 2,500 marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying a fairly adequate food supply, tapping rich agricultural sectors, and passing rapidly from point to point; whereas the American troops, to cover this same region, and maintain intact their line of communications with Managua and Leon, must swing over an arc half again as long...
...latest measurements of the cosmic ray (TIME, November 23, 1925) prove it to consist of definite bands of color, like the light from a Cooper-Hewitt mercury arc, but the spectral region in which the bands occur corresponds to frequencies 100,000,000 times greater than those emitted by the Cooper-Hewitt arc. Having measured the ray, Dr. Millikan sat down to figure out its importance. He turned to Einstein's theories. He found, using the Einstein equation (M C 2-E), that the most conspicuous band in the cosmic ray spectrum is probably the same band that would...