Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea grew out of a conference called last spring by the National Research Council. Scientists told how little was known about the Pacific area, how fast its odd varieties of man and beast were vanishing before the onrush of civilization. To preserve these forms and study the region which had produced them would be a more lasting memorial to the war dead than any statue or building...
...until December of 1944--six months before the Soviet Army marched into Berlin--that the idea of an area study that would include Russia was broached to the Committee on Education Policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The idea and techniques of concentration in a single region were new. A full year of study and planning was put in before the Subcommittee on Languages and International Affairs reported back to its parent body. The report was accepted favorably. The only trouble was that almost a month before the Harvard report was made, Columbia, aided by a grant from...
...that is not enough.. . . Feeling, in the last analysis, leads man by the nose. . . . Ridge field, Amawalk, Blue Mountain: seen from an airplane these desolate territories strike one with anguish, foretelling a fatal adventure marked with the sign of death. . . . White Plains, Greenwich, Round Hills: ... a privileged region . . . polished and policed. . . . The region 'breathes.' Here one feels is a place where one can camp...
...Bullfinch, nor the Mathers, nor Holmes, Thoreau and Emerson. If he leans toward economics, he will learn something about how New England makes its living. He may even get some visual education, as from the field trips which Professor Black promotes to the farms and forests of the region...
Locusts came from the west, from the wild Chaco region of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. They swarmed into southern Brazil on a 60-mile front, blotting out the sun as they flew, making more noise than a squadron of diving planes. It took them four hours (at 9 m.p.h.) to fly over one village in Paranaá state. They blocked roads, stalled trains, invaded houses. They devastated eight towns, ate up an estimated 60,000 tons of wheat -more than half of Brazil's small but vital wheat crop...