Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maggots of society!" But on the last day of his life, when he was demented with pain, disease and alcohol, "Old Jules'' Sandoz broke down and urged her to tell the story of his struggles as a homesteader and community builder, in the desolate Running Water region of western Nebraska. Last week his daughter fulfilled his wish with a biography that won the Atlantic $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize, became the November choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...felt the space problem more acutely than any other of our Colonial colleges. When the old print was made it had already moved 9in 1756) from near Trinity Church to the outskirts what is now Park Place. The outskirts to which the college moved in 1857 was the region around Madison Avenue and 40th Street...
Lowell founded an observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, a region admirably suited for the examination of the heavens, and equipped it with a 24-inch telescope, of which the main purpose was to carry on the investigation of Mars. Here a careful study of the "canals" began. As a result, by 1908. five hundred and seventy-five such markings had been mapped...
From a purely external point of view we wonder how much the background of this novel, which is Cambridge and Boston and especially the region of Harvard Square, will mean to the outside. The story is full of touches and names, many of them literal (King Coffin has the residents of the Plympton Street apartment all agog. Aiken lived there until last year), which accentuate the horror of the story by their very familiarity...
...existence of a dense cloud of island universes, where conditions are three times as congested as those of average space, has been found by Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory. The cloud lies well beyond the range of all but very powerful telescopes and is located in the region of the sky that includes the southern constellations, Horologium, Roticulum, and Dorado...