Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...male Communist was likewise bound, reviled by the Ichans (Priests), and beaten to death with flails, despite attempts by the police to rescue him. Kindlers of Asia. All over the province of Samarkand and throughout Turkestan similar outbursts were provoked last week by "Woman's Day." This remote region, so long slumberously out of the world, seemed to be kindling again from the sparks struck by Soviet ideals. The human fuel there is crude and lumpy; but so are the logs one needs for a great fire. It is the dream of Soviet Russians that their statesmen may become...
...chief headquarters of this international traffic. Portugal was stigmatized because the Portuguese law still allows girls as young as 14 years to be registered and licensed. The Mediterranean lands are declared the chief source of "white slaves," and Latin America is the principal consumer region. During the reading of the Committee's report-signed by its U. S. Chairman, William F. Snow-a member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenancière into English as "madame." Tenancière, he protested, meant a woman who kept disorderly premises; and madame...
...cruise of the schooner Morrissey was undertaken last summer under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. Its object was two-fold: to investigate in North Greenland the life of the Eskimos, now fast disappearing, and to secure specimens of the sea mammals and fish of that region...
...object of the Putnam Arctic Expedition was twofold; to investigate life among the Esquimos, now fast disappearing of North Greenland, and to secure specimens of all the sea mammals and fish of the region, these to be placed in the American Museum of Natural History...
...sure glad I ain't building no Greek Temples," said Mr. Hendrick to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The dialogue took place in the tenderloin region of the New Fogg Museum where the interviewer found Mr. Hendrick immersed in the arduous duties of his position. He was nursing back to health a large assemblage of huge casts of statues, vases and other impediments connected with the migration...