Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of interference from the sun's own magnetic field, sunspots spray out their particle beams unevenly. The earth may therefore suffer severely from relatively small sunspots if it happens to be in a dense region of the particle beam. Moreover, as the spot cycle wanes, the spots tend to crowd around the sun's equator, and Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's authority on "cosmic-terrestrial relations," believes that equatorial spots get a truer bead on earth than others. Finally, the earth last week had barely passed the spring equinox, at which time...
...Last week correspondents were proudly shown the newest German airplane factory, at Weiner Neustadt, 30 miles south of Vienna. Like all the factories Göring has built since he took charge of the Four-Year Plan and subordinated everything to aerial rearmament, it is in a sparsely settled region and hard to reach by any of Germany's present enemies. Some of the factories are underground, safe from bombardment. They can turn out bombers, fighters and reconnoitering ships at an estimated rate of 2,300 per month, may keep Germany ahead of the Allies in the air long...
...major accomplishment of the Olivers was the anthropological measurement of more than 2,000 natives taken from each of the eight main divisions of the island peoples. This was the most ambitious racial study ever undertaken in this region, which is called Melanesia...
These terms were indeed stiffer than the pre-war demands. Before the war Russia asked only enough of Karelia to put Leningrad out of Finnish artillery range; she said nothing about the Laatokka region, which controls the biggest lake in Europe; and all she wanted was to lease Hanko. Said Foreign Minister Vaino Alfred Tanner, who made quite a name for himself as a phrasemaker as the week wore on: "There is no reason for the Finnish Government to occupy itself with mere talk. Let those talk who like to talk." Across the Baltic in Stockholm, Dr. Juho Paasikivi...
Tuesday, March 26, will find President Conant still in Los Angeles at an all-day meeting of the Harvard Clubs of the region, where he will address a luncheon audience, including Governor Culbert Olson and Mayor Fletcher Bowron, who recently won renown for his clean-up of the city. He will speak on the need of democracy for unusual...