Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great weight of the last Glacial Age. Dr. Leet dissents from this view, at least to the extent of pigeonholing it as a guess. In the Harvard Alumni Bulletin last week, he declared that deep forces are at work under New England and eastern Canada-moreover that the region is in a period of "increasing seismicity." He notes that relatively strong shocks were felt in 1663, 1755, 1850, 1870, 1897, 1904, 1914, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1939, 1940-conspicuously shortening intervals. In general, it looks as though something seismologically big might be building up for New England...
...Tamworth region in New Hampshire will be the center for the Harvard-Radcliffe weekend scheduled for the first and second of February, and a special barn dance is slated for Saturday night. The next weekend Wellesley College finishes midyears, and the girls from Lake Waban will be off to Intervale, where they will play hostess to a delegation of Cantabrigians...
...Rumanian attitude." On his fourth visit he demanded that impotent Rumania explain the presence of the in creasing Nazi hordes and give an immediate answer to his other protests. Reports that 30 crack Soviet divisions had ar rived in Bessarabia to counter Hitler's Army, and that the region of Odessa was under martial law, sent Rumanians from the Moldavian borderland fleeing into the interior. Jews, attempting to flee maraud ing Iron Guardists, were for the first time turned back when they tried to enter Soviet territory...
Last fortnight and again last week earthquakes shook the northeastern U. S., from Canada to Philadelphia. The epicentres of both temblors were traced to the region of Lake Ossipee, N. H., which is about 100 miles north of Boston. As quakes go, they did not amount to much, but near the epicentres they were the most violent ever recorded with modern instruments in solid old New England. Chimneys tumbled, dishes and canned goods fell from shelves, walls cracked, furniture slid. In Milton, Mass, a woman telephoned to police to find out whether the Navy ammunition depot at Hingham had blown...
...Herbarium's field work, Professor Fernald assembled 7,282 sheets of critically important specimens in southeastern Virginia, a historic region of American botanical study. This exploration yielded more than 100 specimens never before known in the region, and 20 new to science...