Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 21 the storm reached Long Island. More destructive hurricanes have bombarded U. S. shores, but never has a hurricane struck a region so thickly populated and so unprepared. Inattentive to weather reports, many a landsman had his first intimation that the wind and rain were more than an equinoctial storm, when he had a "funny feeling'' in his ears-the effect of sudden low pressure, like that of going up in an elevator...
...considerable number of galaxies in a very low galactic-latitude," Shapley reports "Indicates the presence in the Perseus-Cassiopela region of a window...
...study of the relative distribution of stars gives an indication of the total amount of obscuring material, assuming a uniformity in the distribution of stars in a given region...
Declaring the incompetency of the municipal administration of towns in the Boston metropolitan region to satisfy the growing feeling of community in such a region, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government and chairman of the department of Government, recommended the adoption of the city manager type of government, in an address to the delegates to the twenty fifth annual conference of the International Managers' Association Tuesday evening in Fanueil Hall...
Even at that, Shepard, in an interview at his home in Petersham, site of the Forest and center of the carnage, expressed doubt that terrible fires could be avoided if October is a normally dry month. The extent of the havoc in this region can be judged from the fact that in the 2,300 acre Harvard reservation an estimated half to two-thirds of the old growth and much of the younger timber was felled by the wind, measuring from five to ten million board feet...