Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Siamese Twins are identical twins who are not completely separated. "True Siamese twins consist of two nearly complete individuals united obliquely side by side in the hip region. Internally there are two complete sets of viscera, except that there is usually a common rectum." Their organs are symmetrical, one heart slanting to the right, the other to the left. But for some mysterious reason, they are often very unlike in facial features and personality...
...Brooks, director of the University weather station, explained that in moving solar observation headquarters to the Harvard station the government weather officials considered both the advantageous observing conditions on Blue Hill, relatively free from city smoke; and also the intensive studies of solar radiation being carried on in this region by both Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the auspices of foundations established by Godfrey L. Cabot, Harvard, 1882, of Boston...
...later President Vargas gave his scissors another threatening click. The Government-owned Port of Para Corp. took over the local Condor agency, bringing all commercial flying in the Amazon region under administration control...
Shale and sandstone strata bearing dinosaur tracks have been known in Massachusetts' Connecticut Valley region for a long time. The South Hadley bed was found in 1933 by blond, blue-eyed Carlton Nash, who had been fossil-fascinated since childhood. The shale crops out near a wooded, winding road popular with Mount Holyoke College girls and their swains. For six years the brothers kept their secret, then bought two acres from a utility company which owned them. They got to work with broom, sledge and chisel, circulated neat little advertising folders. By last week, nearing the end of their...
...trees, pleasure domes and gambling dens continued to lure the wealthy, the retired and the relaxed. Second in the rate of population growth was New Mexico, where discouraged Okies, who could get no farther, had bogged down. Third fastest-growing State: California, another sun-worshipers' Mecca. Fastest-growing region: the South...