Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second Army is Turkey's, 200,000 strong, at present preoccupied with repairing the devastation of last month's monster earthquake. President General Inönü visited the stricken region not only to comfort his panicked peasantry (see cut, p. 31),but for military reasons. The thorough wreckage of northeastern Asia Minor has destroyed the railroads, without which Turkey's eastern defenses can hardly be supplied. Whether or not he expects to be at war by spring, last week President Inönü got from his adjourning Parliament emergency decree powers like those Premier Daladier...
Dartmouth Region, N. H.: seven inches of fair snow...
Dartmouth Region, N. H.: seven inches of fair snow...
...your excellent picture of the fighting in Finland in your issue of Jan. 8. But I cannot read of this war in the wilderness, of battles fought by spectral shapes in a winter of perpetual night, without thinking that in our own day a new, haunted, legend-breeding region is being created-something that for our own time is the Dreadful Forest, as the Black Forest was a region of terror in the middle ages, or as the Swamp of the Great Dismal was in the days of the runaway slaves. This war of people freezing as they fall...
...Tamworth Region, N. H.: good snow of seventeen inches. Two new inches of snow over a breakable crust...