Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross a Bridge. At Shrirampore, in a region called Noakhali, he settled down in a small, tin-roofed cottage in a dense tropical forest surrounded by ponds, coconut and betel palm groves and paddy fields. He dismissed his retinue of ipo people except for a stenographer and a teacher, who thought Gandhi at 77 not too old to learn Bengali. Often at Shrirampore Gandhi sang Rabindranath Tagore's Ekla Chalo (Walk Alone). Out one day for his afternoon walk, Gandhi tried to cross a bamboo-stick bridge, slipped and was saved from a splash by his teacher. Murmured Gandhi...
...North Polar regions," says Andrews, "are problems of a different nature. . . . We have a great deal to learn about weather in the Arctic regions, the movement of ice, what lies at the bottom of the Arctic seas. . . . Today that region means rapid transport, strategic air bases, weather stations. . . . The Arctic will soon become a Broadway for intercontinental transport...
...Summer is coming to the world's last great uninhabited land mass:the Antarctic continent. Even with the tepid sun hovering for months above the horizon, it will still be a bleak region. Its peaks, soaring to a frigid 15,000 feet, have little need for "keep off" signs. Man cannot support himself in the Antarctic, but with elaborate precautions he can maintain himself there long enough to thaw out some of its deep-frozen secrets...
...Navy's aims are partly scientific but mainly-and frankly-military: 1) to train personnel and test equipment in frigid zones (away from the North Polar region where the Russian bear crouches); 2) to develop techniques for operating bases under arctic conditions...
...China's Communists in the strategic northwest, vacated by the Japanese more than a year ago, has seemingly ended in a political mistake rivaling their military failure. This is a conclusion hard to escape after a strenuous plane, truck and rail tour of the Chahar Shansi-Suiyuan border region...