Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army officer gave as definition of "stratosphere" the "region where temperature ceases to fall and becomes substantially constant". Laying emphasis on the failure to penetrate beyond a transition zone of light and heavy atmosphere, he expressed a conviction that with the accessibility to a greater elevation a more distinct transformation would be evident. Results of the recent flight yielded valuable specimens of ozone, a high oxygen layer which deflects ultraviolet rays, and revealed the presence of living spores and bacteria at the highest altitudes...
...sunspots are accompanied by heavier ultra violet bombardment. These electrified layers serve to deflect most radio waves, curve them around the bulge of earth. In radio's pioneer days, when only one layer was known, it was called the Kennelly-Heaviside layer after its discoverers. Now the electrified region as a whole is more generally referred to as the ionosphere...
...distribution in 1927 was similar except that it was still lower down the main streams. As General Jadwin said: "A flood of the Mississippi is not the torrential rush of water from denuded hillsides, but is the slowly rising, long continued outpour of the drainage from a vast region...
...days of downpour had sent millions of gallons roaring down the Guadarrama and Manzanares Rivers, which overflowed into the White trenches. Gun carriages sank into seas of mud. Dripping wet and nipped by freezing cold, the White troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco withdrew to higher ground, surrendering the waterlogged region to the jubilant Reds with scarcely a shot fired...
...rowboat. They are jailed. They climb the Alps and get lost in the snow. They meet a jolly hermit. They foil the robbers who follow them disguised as minstrels in an empty beer keg on wheels. Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies in the region to distract the boy from his long enough for them to get the gold. This fails too when the string of hurdy-gurdies cascade down a mountain trail in a careening dance. The robbers are nabbed, the boy gets the gold...