Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began the operation, which lasted two hours, through the side of the child's head. He found that he need not construct a by-pass for the cerebro-spinal fluid. Sufficient was removal of an obstruction between the lateral ventricles, cavities of the brain which lie in the region of the temples. His report to the public: "The baby came out of the ether all right, and is taking her feeding nicely. The operation may be termed successful...
Wars in Central and South America are usually comic opera affairs. Despite bloody tales coming from the Chaco region the struggle there between Paraguay and Bolivia probably falls into this category, for the list of casualties is unimposing and both sides seem quite willing for the battle to go on indefinitely. After a short truce which was agreed to only after considerable urging by the assembled American diplomats the war was resumed when a Commission from the League of Nations failed to do anything save distinguish itself by its peculiarly inept handling of the matter...
...Baffin Bay. In Panama, 17 shocks disrupted communications, shook clown a few ramshackle houses, scared natives. The third day, the Lindberghs, asleep in the Azores, were roused at 3 a. m. by more shocks. The fourth day there were temblors in Portland, Ore., in Italy's Abruzzi region on the Adriatic Sea. At last on the fifth day old Mother Earth seemed to have calmed down...
...thorough mapping of the prairie region for use in an annual census and check-up of breeding conditions...
...Portuguese soldiers into the wilderness of the Cacheo River. Last week the Senegal correspondent of the Paris Petit Journal reported that Mme Gate & party had returned to the coast, not with her husband but with horrid information gleaned from natives. Pilots Gate & Constant-Bree had crashed in the river region. There black cannibals caught, butchered, cooked and ate them in a drunken orgy...