Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Performance of the machine has shown its possibilities to be almost limitless. It extends the range of man's color vision down one whole octave into the shorter wave length to a region never seen before. This is done by making use of the ultra-violet light emitted by living tissues when photographed under the extremely short wavelengths of ultraviolet light...
...last week. The first crack appeared in the Saar region. After 23 months of majestic planning and hard work to unite the old enemies, France and Germany, into an economic and military union, the French and Germans were at each other's throats over which nation should control the Saar's iron & coal...
...used for purposes of race assassination? Tolerance does not include tolerance of the intolerable, as you seem to believe. And as for the NAACP, it has well-earned its right to be intolerant: intolerant of regents who keep Negroes out of Southern colleges; intolerant of hanging judges in any region; intolerant of segregation in the Army and Navy; intolerant of any kind of injustice towards a great American minority. If the NAACP is intolerant enough to spoil one evenings pleasure for us, that is its privilege. Because during the other 364 days it was doing our hand-to-hand fighting...
Other Crimson scores ranged in the 75-80 region, due to their total unfamiliarity with the course and a sweeping wind. First man Dusty Burke topped Steve Brown, 1 up and Captain Paul Weissman. In second position, halved with Bob Charing...
...thing about Novelist Erskine Caldwell: he plays no regional favorites. He sniffs out fictional meanness and degeneracy with the zest of a Berkshire in a barnyard, and he imagines them as readily in staid old New England as he does in the meaner stretches of Georgia. Actually the region doesn't matter. By now, Caldwell's characters are not so much recognizable people as mass-produced toys which squeak set speeches and make appropriate gestures when wound up. In Episode in Palmetto (1950) he blessedly called a halt to the "cyclorama of Southern life" that got its start...