Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With descriptions of a trip into North China that puts fiction to shame, the globe-trotter mentioned Russia's effect in the present war. A large part of China's arms have been flown into this region, but contrary to popular belief, the main route for Russian imports is the Burma Road...
Back from the Franco-Prussian War came ambitious Max Graf. Amid much barter and little romance, he and stolid, pious Tessa were married. She bore eleven children, worked stubbornly until her legs, like many peasant women's, became horribly varicose. Her husband's bakery flourished as the region became a resort for Wagner, Liszt, the mad King Ludwig...
...bitter cold wave settled over the nation Tuesday night as destructive gales lashed across the Great Lakes region and pounded eastern seaboard states, taking a heavy toll in life and property...
Last week suave, British-born William Francis Gray Swann, director of the Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation in Swarthmore, Pa., suggested that even the notion of charged particles might be jettisoned. He preferred to think of the atom as just a region of "wiggling knottiness," a something free to behave in any way it likes. In psychology, the behaviorists and mechanists refuse to worry about what the human mind really is, study it as a series of behavior patterns. Dr. Swann fancies atomic behaviorism...
Kentucky's bluegrass country is a fertile region, some 80 miles across, in the rolling foothills of the Alleghenies. Official spokesmen of the bluegrass country are the Lexington Herald and Leader. Both owned by rotund, ribald little Publisher John George Stoll, 62, who distilled a fortune out of bluegrass whiskey, the morning Herald (circulation, 18,876) is for Roosevelt, evening Leader (22,119) for Willkie. But on one question Publisher Stoll's papers are agreed: that bluegrass horses nave no peers...