Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the most important acquisitions last year was a shipment of about 3,000 plants from the Upper Great Lake Region of the United States, collected by Arthur S. Fease, professor of Latin at Harvard, assisted by Eugene C. Ogden, of Cambridge, graduate student at Harvard...
...Secondly, he was prompted by personal motives. Manchuria was his ancestral home, and it was only natural that he should be specially interested in what was happening in this region. Moreover, every undertaking given to the Manchu Imperial Family in the Abdication Agreement had been wantonly violated. The pension to be paid to him by the Republic had been canceled. His private property had been confiscated. He had been treated with studied insolence by the Kuomintang. And the ancestral tombs had been violated and rifled, without any attempt to bring the perpetrators to book or to secure the recovery...
...first projects undertaken by the Geographical Institute's aerial photography group was the mapping of the Newburyport, Mass. area for the peabody Museum's survey of the inhabitants of that region. An army of workers was employed to interiew each Newburyport resident, noting his personal history and gathering anthropological data on his skull's dimensions...
...world lighted by the sun improved instead of faltering. Indeed by Oct. 21-23 it was the best the Bureau had ever observed. Next day-the crucial day-reception fell off sharply by half, and the expected fading occurred. Simultaneously the uppermost main layer of the ionosphere (radio-reflecting region of electrified air) rose from 155 mi. to a record height...
...story is laid in the Lake St. John region of New Brunswick, Canada, and depicts graphically the rugged French folk and bleak countryside of that region. The mental struggles of the heroine, Marie, in deciding whether to stay in her native country with her own countrymen and her father, or to go to the glamorous States with her lover form one of the main themes of the story...