Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consternation was widespread among the Faculty and students of the Medical School as a result of the announcement. Lucius J. Lucius, professor of Biology, termed converging "a rare physiological phenomenon among women that I have observed only in isolated cases among the Indians of the upper Amazon region...
With the possibility that the region will operate concertedly at the forthcoming convention, straw-votes were conducted on what the group thought would be major issues in Madison--an eleventh hour vote favoring affiliation with the International Union of Students...
...must make all of his decisions from the point of view of the improved community." Beauty in a building is not skin- deep, held Gropius, but an integral part of the complete unity; more important, by "building" he did not mean an isolated structure but the street, town, region, nation...
...Varkuta is the name of the place you are sent to. It is a town, or rather a prison camp, the Russians opened in 1943 behind the Urals. There are coal mines covering 4,000 square miles, a total of 1,500,000 slave workers in the pits. The region is subArctic. The ground is so hard frozen that those who die cannot be buried, but are left lying on the tundra, where the wolves and other wild animals take care of them...
...House of Mist and Señorita Bombal have a common background in the lake region of southern Chile, where it rains so hard (104 inches a year) that mist is almost a sign of fine weather. There María-Luísa's heroine, Helga, a love child, falls in love with Daniel, the boy next door. But Daniel marries Helga's cousin Teresa, who commits suicide. Helga becomes his second wife. Because she knows that Daniel still loves Teresa, she spends a night with a handsome interloper. Later, Daniel falls in love with Helga...