Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Profiting by the mistakes of this expedition the Lick Observatory in California prepared for many months its expedition. W. W. Campbell was made director. The first action was that of photographing that region of the sky in which the sun would be three months later...
...winter, for instance, the sun is above the tropical belt and tends to increase the warmth in that zone. Under this higher temperature the atmosphere there expands and overflows into the temperate belts, and immediately currents from the north are set in motion to restore the equilibrium in this region of diminished pressure. Consequently, during a winter of high solar radiation, the temperate zones are subject to continued and cold north winds...
...chief centers of the Mayas, now attracting public interest, are Chichen Itza, Uxmal and Mayapan, forming a league which ruled Yucatan about 1000-1300 A. D. At Uxmal is the House of the Governor 330 feet long, the most imposing building of the region. At Chichen Itza are a pyramidal castle 130 feet high; temples to Kukulkan, the chief Maya divinity; a civic center two miles long, surrounded by several square miles of massive buildings, terraces, etc.; a large enclosed court in which a game like basketball was played; life-size statues of Chac-Mool, the "Tiger King...
While the value of the mark was dropping almost to that mythical region in mathematics, infinity, the Passion Players continued to charge their old prices for seats and finished the season with a dividend which would just about buy each of them three pounds of butter or half a pair of shoes. The players have their crafts; they make enough pottery and carve enough wood to keep body and soul together under ordinary circumstances. But during the long and arduous season of training through which they must go to produce the play, the baying of the wolf grows louder...
Late in August the original secretary of the Medical School Society, Mr. George V. Smith, wrote a letter to each new student coming to the Medical School and enclosed a printed list of rooms available in the vicinity of Long-wood Avenue a map of the region round about the school; a summary of the average expenses of a student at the Harvard Medical School and a letter of welcome...