Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aluminum shell, the whole weighing about 2 lb. One of the balloons went up 12 miles. In Washington it was observed that a storm had penetrated that far into the stratosphere-or rather, that the storm had lifted to 12 miles the lower boundary of the stratosphere, since that region is by definition a calm, "weatherless" stratum...
Another Krick boundary lies in the Atlantic Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard, separating warm Gulf Stream air from cold continental air. This boundary moved west until it lay some 200 miles inland, bringing warm weather to the coastal States. Quick thaws in this region contributed something to the Ohio floods. Another flood factor was the migration of the Rockies boundary into the Pacific Ocean. This allowed low-pressure centres to swing all the way down the western U. S. before moving east. These centres thus picked up moist tropical air around the Gulf of Mexico, then carried it northeast...
...live lungfish from the central take region of East Africa have been purchased by the directors and placed on exhibition for students, it was disclosed recently by Arthur Loveridge, curator of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...important work has been done in the past year. Mr. J. O. Brew and his expedition, in north central Arizona, found clues throwing light on the history of the Hopi Indians of the Southwest. The present program in this area will, if successful, present a connected picture of the region from the early Christian era to the burning of Awatovi, the ruin now being excavated, in 1700. Into Honduras, near the Maya empire, Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute sent a party which has discovered pottery from Lake Yojoa...
...addition to these major expeditions, the Museum investigated, among others, Australians, Siamese, Armenians, Chelsea school children, and the neolithic period in the Near East. In the last-named undertaking, the Geology, Botany, and Zoology departments cooperated, and an effort is being made to do intensive research in this region...