Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives of the polar bears, hares, birds, and rare musk oxen of the barren region were shown in several reels of motion pictures. Led by John K. Howard '15, Boston lawyer and sportsman, the expedition brought back specimens of these animals for the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology...
This fact, as well as parking violations, stolen clothing and recent room robberies were touched upon in statements made by Sergeant Charles P. Donelan and Officer John Tevlan, who cover the region around the University...
Addressing the one-day emergency conference of the seaboard region of the United Palestine appeal, King caustically referred to "so-called 'Christian' nations" which permit Jewish persecution and he predicted that Poland soon may inaugurate a vigorous anti-Jewish drive
British businessmen ignored Stanley's proposal to establish trading posts in the Congo, but shrewd King Leopold II of the Belgians, in the market for a colonial empire, sent him into the region as the representative of a Belgian association of traders. In a few years Stanley had so expanded the association's influence through trading posts and treaty alliances with petty native chiefs that by 1885 the world powers at Berlin agreed to recognize the Congo as a sovereign, free State, under control of the trading company. Leopold's next step, as head of the company...
...pronghorn's amazing recovery is due mostly to State laws forbidding antelope hunting and to the creation by States and by the Federal Government of antelope refuges and ranges. Most important single refuge, because it contains the pronghorns' fawning grounds, is the region around Oregon's Hart Mountain. There mounted patrolmen travel over 276,000 acres of sagebrush inspecting the range, watch out for predatory animals and poachers...