Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle on under German General Hans Kundt. Because the League of Nations has not yet finished adjudicating the Leticia dispute between Peru and Colombia which brought those nations to war (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.) they refused to sign last week, as did Ecuador which adjoins the Leticia region and hopes to have a finger in the final settlement, peaceful or otherwise. Apart from the Anti-War Pact, by which Argentina and Brazil led South America a long step on the road to peace, the other nine "treaties" signed by Presidents Justo and Vargas, some of them mere agreements, served...
...room where they now are might be refurnished as a study, the whole being done at an expense insignificant in comparison to the resultant advantages. The library, of course, is at once one of the most popular and one of the most useful of House adjuncts; further, no conceivable region is less suited to crowding than a library; if Bryant Hall was added without the requisite foresight, the mistake should be rectified at once...
When the Houses went into operation, the center of Harvard life for the upperclassmen shifted unmistakably from the Yard to the region beside the Charles. Five of the Houses, Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop, Lowell, and Leverett, are grouped fairly close together in one section, while Dunster is located farther down the river and Adams on the old Gold Coast on Mt. Auburn Street. Between the Yard and the Houses, in the vicinity of Mount Auburn Street, are located also the Indoor Athletic Building, most of the clubs, and the offices of the CRIMSON, Lampoon, and Advocate...
...York's disturbance centred in the region of the fertile Mohawk Valley which winds eastward across the State. 200 mi. north of the city. By regulation of the State Milk Control Board created last winter by the Legislature, the dairy farmers in this as in other sections of the State are paid on a sliding scale of prices, depending upon whether the milk is to be used for drinking (4¾ per qt.) or to go into ice cream, cheese or butter (1½). Independent farmers, complaining that they received an average of only 2? per quart and irked...
...need of having an observatory in the southern hemisphere if they wished to study the entire heavens became apparent. The one in Cambridge could only photograph the region of the sky in what in called the North Colestial Pole, so a station was established in Arequipa, Peru, for photographic work on the southern skies...