Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most sparsely represented area of the country is the Rocky Mountain region, which, with 18 men, makes up less than half of one percent of the University total. With less than two percent representation, the Pacific coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington have also lost ground...
Many, wanting all these things, deserted. In the Berlin region alone, thousands deserted each month. Some simply went to the U.S. zone and tried to stay there. Others roamed the countryside. The Red Army had to ask the U.S. and British Armies to help round them...
Mother Russia acquired another child. In the Soviet Union's ample and complex federal bosom,* the newcomer is known as the Tuvinian Autonomous Region. Hitherto it has been called Tannu Tuva, nominally an independent people's republic tucked between Outer Mongolia and Siberia...
Anthropologists no longer look for a definite single place where the human race first appeared on earth. They know that man's ancestors were numerous, varied and widely distributed before they were fully human. But they still seek the "cultural Garden of Eden": the region where man first discovered agriculture...
Most promising spot is a triangular region between Lakes Van, Goktcha and Urmia. Here wild wheat still grows. Small rivers run down from the hills, their narrow floodplains easy to till with crude farm tools. The valleys of the Nile and Tigris were too big and difficult for man's first feeble efforts...