Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police who declined to let his name be brought into the discussion remarked that late in August, birth control proving totally impractical, XX high power buckshot was resorted to by his henchmen in their valiant fight. As a result of this drastic action the Yard has remained an habitable region, although the former amicable attitude of the squirrels has given way to one of hauteur and strained reserve--rarely talented indeed will be the member of the Class of 1938 who makes any lasting friends among the four footed denizens of the Yard...
...William's profile to a fish, why pick out a carp [TIME, Sept. 3]? A pickerel, which has been glorified by the automobile manufacturers in the last two years, would have served much better. Or a trout! Or a bass! Warren, born and reared in the game fish region of Northern Minnesota, could hardly look like a carp . . . as there are few of this undesirable species in Northern Minnesota's sky-blue waters. . . . Warren is acquainted only with the better class of fish- real finny beauties...
Airplanes today joined the search for David Riesman, Jr. '31, of Philadelphia, and Stanislas P. Franchot '32 of Boston, reported to be lost in the Timagami region of Ontario. The two law students left August 26 on a canoe trip with food for two weeks and Franchot was expected home for the wedding of his sister last Saturday. When he failed to appear the Canadian government was notified but forest rangers in the Timagami Reserve have so far failed to locate the pair. Airplanes and all available help were being enlisted today in the continued search and friends, recalling...
...last week Professor Roscoe Raymond Hyde of Johns Hopkins heard that Puerto Rico is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (10,000 cases; no deaths). Next day he heard that the region around Hagerstown, Md. also is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (1,000 cases; no deaths). Those epidemics Professor Hyde feared might denote the beginning of a pandemic such as devastated the U. S. in 1918. Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble. When Professor Hyde expresses fear, wise men take heed...
...predisposing factor in the production of such disorders. Such a 'lesion' affects the circulation of blood and lymph and thus becomes responsible for producing in the tissues the point of lowered resistance in which germs locate and propagate. It is also responsible for a region of stagnant blood, or some-times of stimulated circulation, which may result in excess or defect or perversion of the growth or function in structures directly influenced...