Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscovites were gasping at an editorial run in Izvestia which offered an explanation, privately held by many an observer, for Stalin & Co.'s purge of line jumpers. In an article headed "Panic Raisers," Mikhail Suvinsky daringly accused Communist authorities of the Saratov region of covering up their own inefficiency with a campaign against "saboteurs and enemies." "What woebegone leader would not jump at such a convenient slogan to cover up his own inactivity and inability to work?" asked Newsman Suvinsky, in an editorial that somehow got by Izvestia's editors. "Spurred by thoughts of sabotage, the leaders developed...
...have developed poliomyelitis. By this time last year about 2,000 children had it. But the difference does not alarm epidemiologists of the U. S. Public Health Service, who call the current occurrence a "mild epidemic," because its cases are diffused over the entire Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, reaching into Canada. Nonetheless, local health officers are worried. Communities are postponing school terms, forbidding children to attend theatres, go to parks, go in swimming pools...
When the Houses went into operation the center of Harvard life for the upperclassman shifted unmistakably from the Yard to the region beside the Charles...
...Teachers College pedagogs, who showed instant enthusiasm for his songs and will no doubt plug them tirelessly this winter, Mr. Caesar said: "Maybe these songs of safety will get me to Heaven when my hi-de-ho songs would be sure to send me to a hotter region...
...apples real competition. The mass of delegates consoled themselves by playing golf, dancing and wishing there were more delegates among them like light-haired, blue-eyed Abraham Kouris, 37, of Tel Aviv, Palestine. A Russian who speaks six languages, Appleman Kouris is the leading importer of apples to the region, where according to tradition, the apple first made news (Genesis...