Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems and duties at home, Harvard students are inclined to ignore a field of action in which the University takes quiet but profound pride. The latest reports of the Bowles expedition in Tibet, which bid fair to replace several missing tiles in the exotic and unfamiliar mosiac of that region, show once again that the triumphs of Harvard scholarship are far from being confined to Cambridge. If present hopes are realized, the discoveries made by Mr. Bowles and his party, although taking place in remotest Asia, will throw an essential light on the perplexing problem of the origin...
...street and confound the Capitalist world. In a nation of peasants which is so excited by the parachute that it is training millions to jump, men with spectacular ideas are popping up by thousands. The U. S. S. R. has a guild of inventors whose membership in the Moscow region alone is reported around 30,000. Down to the last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack in formal training they make up for in imagination. Thus it is that Russia is flooded with garish science news and the Soviet citizen...
...analyses of such charts, Drs. Davis & Gibbs told the experimental biologists in Detroit last week, "We hope to be able to locate the part of the brain in which these disturbances start. If the region should turn out to be one which is not really necessary to a person, then a brain surgeon might be able to remove...
Metz, France, April 19--French authorities tonight investigated eye-witness reports that a German plane flew over France's eastern frontier fortifications in the region of Thionville, at low altitude...
...Mountaineering Club will sponsor a trip to the Alps this summer for two weeks of guideless climbing in the Zermatt region...