Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...construct chain of small forts owing to domestic troubles in Paraguay during last 30 years, penetrating slowly into undisputed Paraguayan Zone recognized as such by treaties signed by themselves, by U. S. and by the Argentine Republic. Bolivia has never cultivated or owned an inch of ground in that region. Bolivian authorities' object in claiming Chaco is only apparently obtention of outlet on river Paraguay -real object being political-for party preponderance. Former Bolivian Presidents confessed repeatedly, their country had no title or rights to Chaco. Paraguay does want peace, but will as little consent sharing Chaco with turbulent...
Long sinuous flashes of lightning flitted through the sky. Aurora struggled to obliterate the darkness which had found a region conducive to its moodiness. Sparks and ashes emerged from a small crater while the inhabitants of Ponguelano scurried from alleys going toward the large cellar which Armakeli had built; he had once said in one of his ecstatic moments that to die happily one had to be prostrate, with mouth opened and with a spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident...
...cave is thought to contain rubbish and ruins of cultures paralleling those that are represented by the Alkali Ridge sites. It is hoped that the results of the work will clarify the problem presented by the Ridge, and throw further light on some of the earlier cultures of the region, since the dry rubbish is known to contain perishable material not preserved in open sites...
...ideas about the upper atmosphere came out during the American Philosophical Society's meeting in Philadelphia last week: 1) that the region is violently turbulent; 2) that it produces cosmic radiations (not to be confused with cosmic rays...
While criticism of the Southern courts is not to be scorned, the intensity of racial feeling in the region of the black belt precludes any solution which the northern reformers have to offer. Judge Lowell and the exponents of open-eyed justice seem to forget, like the Republicans of the Reconstruction Era, that race feeling by no means applies to whites alone. On this issue, no compromise is possible. Mixed juries will result in innumerable disagreements regardless of the defendant's guilt or race; all the terrorism which has blighted the tradition of the South must recur with undiminished zeal...