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Word: regions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Places which it would probably be best to avoid now are the Dartmouth Region and Cannon Mountain, both in New Hampshire. Only nine inches of snow was reported for the Dartmouth Region with the temperature at 18 degrees, while at Cannon Mountain there is plenty of snow, but it is almost entirely frozen granular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Skiing Reported In Northern Resorts | 2/21/1942 | See Source »

...than this one (written at the request of the Venezuelan Government) to help North Americans to understand Latin Americans. Simon Bolivar freed almost a third of South America in the name of democracy. He was driven out as a dictator when he tried to give orderly government to the region he had freed. His was the pioneer vision of Latin-American unity and hemispheric solidarity. (He was never able to achieve either.) Both his stupendous successes and his stupendous failures shed light on much that Americans find strange in the problems of Latin-American democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: El Libertador | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Emphasizing the college students' leadership-responsibility in Civilian Defense, Ward and John Langdon, youth representative in Region VI, addressed a meeting of student and faculty representatives of 13 Chicago area colleges. It was the concensus of the delegates that students should continue their college courses until called for government service. Major Raymond J. Kelly, Regional Director of the OCD in the sixth region, said, "The war is furnishing a tremendously increased demand for trained people. Often, it is better for students to continue what they are doing instead of going into the service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARD TO HEAD YOUTH GROUP | 2/4/1942 | See Source »

...Jackson will participate. More snow is needed on Cranmore Hill for the race, however. George Brett, Will Cochrane, Phil Thayer, Parker Reidy, and Bradley Cameron are scheduled to race, but the list will probably be swelled by the large Harvard contingent which has drifted up to the Eastern Slopes region after examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Leaves Today For Woodstock Meet; Conditions Poor in New England | 1/30/1942 | See Source »

Bartlett, N. H., 10 inches, skiing fair; Canaan, N. H., no snow, no skiing; Cannon Mountain, Franconia, N. H., 18 inches, fair to poor; Dartmouth region, 3 inches, skiing poor; Intervale, N. H., 3 inches, skiing poor; Jackson, N. H., 8 inches, skiing fair; Laconia, N. H., no snow, no skiing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather Conditions | 1/30/1942 | See Source »

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