Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal in particular: 1) Italy to hold her conquest of Ethiopia within moderate limits and in no case to attack the region of Lake Tana where the British Empire has vital interests; 2) Italy to endure without armed retort economic & financial sanctions which the League of Nations must impose or utterly lose face; 3) France and Britain to block the League from voting military or naval sanctions and participate in an "open door" exploitation of Ethiopia in their "spheres of influence"; 4) mutual understanding that there will be cheating all round on the "economic sanctions," with European States who have...
...Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote a moving, nostalgic novel of the Florida scrub, South Moon Under, in which proud and good-natured backwoodsmen were pictured retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with the same region, but pictures along with the natives a queer group, composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways of the country...
...Ross was a lecturer in the theory of design at Harvard since 1899 until his death early in September. He wrote many books on Oriental art, and was one of the first to penetrate Cambodia, a region in Indo-China, for artistic research. It was he who introduced Persian pottery to the Boston public, as well as awaken an interest in the colored tile of this region. Although he was a profuse collector, Dr. Ross kept few objects for himself, giving the majority to either the Boston Museum or the Fogg...
This, the general predicted, will result in "a paradise of live-&-let-live" in China. "A new political setup, independent of Nanking politically as well as economically, is necessary in North China. This region has annual revenues exceeding $130,000,000-ample for an independent State...
Another party was led by Walter D. Wood '26, who, accompanied by his brother, Harrison Wood '36, reached the unconquered peak of Mt. Steele. This mountain, which is also in the Yukon region, is 16,400 feet high, making it one of the ten loftiest peaks in North America...