Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...level of the river, it is obvious that even a small rise in the waters would cause another catastrophe. It is reported that Federal authorities wish to have one-fourth of the levee repair work (cost estimated at $50,000,000) paid for by the people of the flood region, but how these people are going to pull $12,500,000 out of empty pockets remains to be seen...
...region of Yermuk, as the quake began, a railway train was chuffing steadily along rails laid on the side of a hill only six feet from the edge of a 300-foot precipice. In one of the cars rode Lieutenant Colonel George Stewart Symes, Acting British High Commissioner for Palestine...
...last week, reported L. C. Speers, staff correspondent for the New York Times. Mr. Speers has been traveling through the flooded region, reporting to his newspaper conditions as he has observed them. His has been a story of destitute thousands forming shamefaced breadlines; of stagnant waters, breeding places of countless mosquitoes; of a lost cotton crop and a lost corn crop; of the collapse of the credit system hastily thrown together to relieve the stricken area. Mr. Speers writes as no sensation monger and the Times, though Democratic in policy, has never been an extremist organ, has even opposed...
...were for the future. Before rumor could put him into the cinema or vaudeville circuits he announced in Paris that during the next eight years he would try to 1) take 50 men (including ten scientists), many dogs and sledges and two planes, to explore the unmapped South Polar region,* which may be largely free of snow in antarctic summer months; 2) to soar over the wide jungles of Brazil, mapping mountains and rivers; 3) cruise the length and breadth of the Arabian Desert. Asked if he might not try a bird's-eye look at Mt. Everest, Commander Byrd...
After a nervous session in the ballot room, it was announced that Dean Mathey, Princeton, N. J., had been elected trustee of Princeton University from the Second Region (comprising Manhattan and the State of New Jersey). This region sends more sons to Princeton than any other. Yet Mr. Mathey (of the class of 1912) is the youngest member of the board of trustees, was selected from a field of six candidates, "after the most spirited voting in the history of the University." Some of the men whom Mr. Mathey will help direct the destiny of Princeton are Charles Scribner (books...