Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard crag-climbers took part in four important expeditions last summer. Adams Carter '36, Robert H. Bates '33, and H. Bradford Washburn '33 penetrated deep into the unexplored region south of Mt. Steele on a mapping trip, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Airplanes were used for transportation as far as possible into the Yukon territory, but the actual exploration was carried on with dog teams alone. Three mountains, all over 14,000 feet in altitude, were discovered and mapped. The most interesting scientific feature discovered by the party was a nunatak glacier which had retreated over six miles...
...VALLEY?Nathan Asch?Macmillan ($2.50). Collection of well-written sketches laid in a run-down Connecticut farming region where old settlers, immigrants, New York artists and wealthy suburbanites come together...
...economic conditions of the Islands. It sounds impressive, but the truth is that the export of rum never amounted to much, if any, more than 4% of the per annum exports of the Islands. ... I will leave it to you to explain how the loss of 4% of a region's annual exports can produce an economic wreck. . . . The very prosaic fact is that the manufacture of sugar constitutes the chief means of livelihood in these Islands and that the rum produced is and always has been a byproduct...
Though many a reader has lately grown weary of tales of the South by Southern writers, the Book-of-the-Month Club nevertheless turned once more to that region, picked Deep Dark River as its July choice. On the strength of this, his first novel, critics carefully pigeonholed the name of Robert Rylee as a young U. S. novelist to bear serious watching...
...valleys are now more than 6000 feet below sea level in their greatest depths on Georges Bank. An uplift sufficient to bring these valleys above present sea level implies Alpine heights for the highlands of New England and New York and a high plateau for the rest of this region. A cliff about 7000 feet high must have extended along the New England coast in those days...