Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wong Wen-hao once wrote a book called Earthquake Regions of China. Last week he needed all his seismographic skill, for he was named Premier of the Chinese Republic-a vast earthquake region crumbling under the triple temblors of civil war, inflation and mass discontent...
...British missionary, Dr. Jim settled in Anapolis, he says, "because it just couldn't go any place but forward." It was a junction point for mule trains then, had "only two simple streets and a dozen houses." Fanstone was the first to practice surgery in the region; until then, appendicitis was known as "knotted bowels" and you "either got well or died by yourself." He brought in the first X-ray machine, the first elevator; his six-story hospital was the first skyscraper...
Although French archaeologists have recently dug up considerable quantities of stone tools and weapons, the Bryan-Movius expedition will mark the first time that a geologist and an archaeologist have teamed up in this region in an effort to relate prehistoric remains of a western European race to a definite period in the history of the world...
...move. The Legion destroyed the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion and four others. In southern Palestine, Egyptian troops crossed the border into the sandy wastes of the Negeb Desert to seize Jewish settlements on the road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war.* But these Arab moves were, for the moment, token attacks with token forces. The important question in the minds of Arabs and Jews and even...
Professor John Somerville of Hunter College, author of "Soviet Philosophy" and former visiting lecturer at the College, will be guest speaker at the twentieth anniversary celebration of Birooidjan--the Jewish autonomous region of the U.S.S.R.--Sunday evening at New England Mutual Hall...