Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June. (Experts generally cut the German High Command's naval triumph figures almost in half.) The British took this as a sign that they were doing a lot better in the battle of the blockade, pointed out that July, with its lengthy stretches of daylight (in the region of Iceland as much as 24 hours), is considered one of the best months for maritime raiding. (The Nazis burbled that they had already sunk so much enemy tonnage that the Atlantic was virtually free of merchant shipping.) Undoubted contributing factor: withdrawal of long-range Nazi bombers to the Russian Front...
...pictures appearing on these pages -published for the first time outside of France-are from the walls of a cavern near Montignac, Dordogne, a limestone region where many similar, though less splendid, prehistoric finds have been made...
Many a curiously bent tree growing in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region is no mere freak of nature. It is the handwork of long-dead Indians. In the July Scientific Monthly Geologist Raymond E. Janssen of Evanston, Ill. tells how he settled the puzzle of the crooked trees for which he could find no scientific explanation anywhere. He ran across a few historical references which indicated that "trees were sometimes bent by the Indians to mark trails through the forests." Several summers of study convinced Janssen that the deformed trees are surviving guideposts...
...Ceded the Banat region to Germany...
Wagner. "With Wagner we . . . reach an uncertain twilight region - part biological, part social, and part . . . esthetic. But the pattern is the same. Art has its evolution, which follows the development of races and nations, the progress of culture ultimately requiring the union of the arts in a popular synthesis of sociological import. The Ring [of the Nibelungs] accordingly celebrates in turn the superman-to-be, the fall of the old gods through the curse of gold, and the triumph of Germanism, in one long tale of blood, lust and deceit. . . . History is a sieve that works, and the residue...