Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President last week received invitations to spend the summer months in Lenox, Mass., in the Finger Lakes region of N. Y., in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The Summer White Houses so far offered are located in 18 different states...
...Norwegian flag, the gift of King Haakon and Queen Maud (TIME, April 12, SCIENCE). Within the Norge's gondola are other Norwegian flags of stiffest canvas, securely sewed to stout weighted spikes. According to international convention all that is necessary for Norway to annex legally the unexplored north polar region is for the Norge to fly over it, dropping a sufficient number of flags. Already King Haakon's realm embraces the south polar cap, discovered and claimed for Norway by the same Norseman (Amundsen, 1911) who now sails aboard the Norge...
...came here to Harvard to speak on some very important discoveries made recently in China which give an insight into the early stage of the evolution of the arts and culture of that region, and also the ancient connections, to some extent economic, existing between the Far East and other portions of the then civilized world...
...Legation Quarter of Peking became an isolated isle of safety last week as the encircling armies of Chinese Super-Tuchuns (super-bandit warlords) stirred the whole region into a frothing sea of civil war. All communication by rail, road or telephone ceased to exist; and only one foreign cable wire was in operation. Throughout the week some thousands of more or less embattled Chinese soldiers in the vicinity of Peking continued respectful, even obliging, toward those foreigners who had occasion to pass through the civil war area...
Latest Events. Despatches cabled from Morocco last week reported a strong Riffian surprise attack against the French in the North Taza region. A French counter attack later restored the original status quo. Both sides claimed numerous desertions to them...