Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois doctor who had bought land near Loma Bonita, sight unseen, and wanted it fenced, cleared and planted. When the doctor's son later arrived to take over, Peters bought a nearby 200-acre tract for himself. Finding that wheat and other northern crops did poorly in the region's hot, dry climate, he made a trip to Tezonapa, 75 miles away, and brought back pineapple plants of the Cayenne variety. They did well. Peters brought in more plants, and by 1910 he was harvesting 20,000 pineapples a year. Prospering, he bought more & more land until...
Foreign students attending New England colleges will have a unique opportunity to tour the region over spring vacation in an informal trip sponsored by the National Student Association at the University of Vermont...
Married before the war, the Lindsay's had just settled down in Peking when the Japanese invaded. The couple fled to the hill region where they fought with the guerrillas for three years. During this time Lindsay was responsible for radio communications between the front and the rear echelons...
...TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian News Service, was distributed at the meeting. Its first sentences: "Long ago we coined an adjective-'TIMEworthy'-to describe a news story for TIME. This is a matter which has significance and interest not merely to the community or region where it happens but to all TIME readers everywhere...
...More than 300,000, from Eastern as well as Western Germany, attended its Berlin rally last summer (TIME, July 23). "The layman," Thadden told a Chicago audience last week, "is ... in fact the essential interpreter of the Christian message in the battlefield of the world, in exactly that frontier region where world and church collide...