Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dartmouth Region, N. H.: good snow of nine inches with an unbreakable crust...
...fault lies, unprejudiced sources claim with the choosing of the site of the traditional sent of "Harvard Indifference." All the region south of Eliot and South Streets--the area now occupied by Eliot House and Memorial Drive used to be a low-lying swampland on which "squatters" lived in cabins, whose disappearance into the swamp in the early days of Cambridge provided one of the chief sources of excitement for local witch-hunters...
...Cabin at Jackson, New Hampshire, received its christening during the past two weeks at 15 members of the Ski Club used it for a base of operations, driving over to Cannon Mountain when the snow was bad in the Pinkham region. Herman Ostermeyer, instructor at the Eastern Slope school, acted as unofficial coach and gave pointers to the boys as they needed them...
Conditions for this week-end are only fair in the Eastern Slope region, but good at Stowe. Conditions for This Week-end Cannon Mt. (Tramway) Fair 17 in. Conway Poor 3 in. Dartmouth Region Poor 3 in. Franconia Notch Fair 13 in. Fryoburg Good 5 in. North Conway Poor 3 in. Pinkham Notch Fair 12 in. Stowo (Mt. Mansfield) Good 30 in. WatervILLe Good 7 in. Wolfeboro Good 5 in. Laurentian Mts. Good...
...which four have been known since Galileo turned one of the first telescopes on the big planet). Professor Alfred Harrison Joy plotted the rotation of the Milky Way-the great star galaxy, six hundred thousand trillion miles across, to which the sun and all other visible stars belong. The regions near the centre of the galaxy are rotating fastest, the outermost regions slowest. By measuring the speeds of Cepheid variable stars, Professor Joy found that the region of the sun, two-thirds of the distance from the centre, rotates once every 207,000,000 years...