Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address relating the climate of the Mediterranean Region to the present war, Dr. V. A. Conrad, Robert DeCiurcy Ward Research Associate in Climatology, discussed before an audience composed mainly of soldiers, sailors and WAVES the weather tendencies which gravely influence fighting taking place on the African battlegrounds...
Shortly after eight o'clock last evening a new system of air raid warnings was tested in Cambridge. The method of alerting has been changed slightly in order to insure a standardized system for the Eastern Seaboard region...
...Charles Franklin Brooks, professor of Meteorology and Director of Blue Hills Observatory, announced last night that the sudden wave of sub-zero weather was caused by a movement of extremely cold air from the Arctic region. The great amount of snow coupled with this movement has driven all warm air from the region...
...guns. A notice appeared in the paper saying that all Americans and British between 17 and 50 years must report to a certain place at a certain time. ... I found that the French had taken all the American officials at the consulate away. So I went to the Region Civile. A very nice French captain whom I knew, along with a French naval officer, greeted me cordially. When I asked what I was supposed to do, the captain said, "You have read the paper...
...Nothing But Literature." "Willie" Yeats was born in the ghost-rich region of Sligo in 1865, of Anglo-Irish Protestants, in the most Catholic of nations, a minority man from the start. He was a wretched schoolchild, slow to read, timorous, bullied. But he learned from his grandparents the grand patriarchal images which never left him, and from poor relations and kitchen servants the supernatural and prehistoric lore which was both to illumine and befuddle his poetry; and he learned from his magnificent father the lesson which an artist must learn: "Self-interest and self-preservation are the death...