Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are 12 scholarships granted each year, three in each of four regions in this country. A committee of six Americans and the British Consul in each region make preliminary selections, with the American Ambassador in London making the final decisions...
...must reassure the native peoples that we are determined to preserve peace with freedom in the region...
...France. But we are still unable to say exactly how far the layer of oil extends below the sandy surface. We are currently boring well No. 4 [down to 6,232 ft. last week], and by March we expect to have six or seven wells in this region. Only then can we venture a definite estimate as to the extent of the discovery...
...Lake Chad region of French Equatorial Africa, a curious native custom has long puzzled anthropologists. Versed as they are in the world's habits from necking to nose-rubbing, the scholars have yet to figure out why the native women pierce their lips at girlhood, then put increasingly bigger straw and wood plugs in the holes to stretch their lips until they protrude like duck bills...
...Iowa River, it stands in the very heart of the U.S. corn belt. It deals out culture in huge, generous doses, turns out novelists, geologists and hydraulic engineers of a quality almost any campus would envy. As much as any place, S.U.I. has become a symbol of a whole region's growing up. The nickname sometimes given it: the Athens of the West...