Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copenhagen Congress Raisz exhibited the Geographical Institute's map of Liberia, which was surveyed by George V. Harley '34. On a scale of four miles to the inch, the map is the largest that has ever been made of this region...
Claiming that because of its topography, vistas of New England Fall foliage exceed those of less rugged sections, Wyman states that there is only one small region in South America, one region in Southwestern Europe, and one other place in North America where there are such colorings...
Died. Sylva Eugenie Davis, 20, courageous paralytic, in her sleep; in Kansas City. Suffering from spastic paralysis (the nerve tracts in the neck region of her spinal cord were injured at birth, causing muscular rigidity), she decided last winter to take the 50-50 chance of a surgical operation which might help her, might kill her (TIME, March...
...Bordeaux mixture is so named because the French vine-growers of the Bordeaux region used to spray their plants with copper sulphate and lime-not as a plant medicine but as a deterrent to thieves. An alert viticulturist named Millardet discovered that vines so sprayed were not attacked by downy mildew. David Fairchild and an associate were the first to try out Bordeaux mixture with success on Virginia vineyards...
Died. Harold Snead, 40, chief pilot of the Eastern Region of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., who never had an accident flying as a commercial pilot; of heart disease; in Newark...