Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great diamond-shaped area that begins around Marietta, at the junction of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers and which, spreading westward, reaches north to around Red Wing, Minn., south to the Republican River in Kansas and west to the foothills of the Wild Cat Mountains in western Nebraska-throughout this region corn stood from eight to twelve feet high, and the estimate stood at 2,523,092,000 bushels-53% of the world's total...
There is a true parallel between the forces and the storms of Nature and the forces and storms in the minds of men. The beneficent forces in Nature that build rich soil along river banks through growth of trees and plants are opposed by the devastating floods that wash away the banks and inundate the cities because of storms over wide areas on the plains above...
...clicked with his Soviet hosts. Working long after midnight in the Kremlin two nights running, Premier Molotov and the German Foreign Minister, with J. Stalin sitting in, again redrew the map of Poland (see map). They moved last fortnight's provisional "Military Division" far eastward from the Vistula River to the Bug. Racially the population on the swastika side is almost purely Polish, on the hammer & sickle side it is nearly all of Ukrainian or White Russian blood. Thus the new "Permanent Boundary" is drawn on broad ethnographic lines. It was embodied in a mealy-mouthed Protocol of Friendship...
Kiangsi-"West of the (Yangtze) River"-lies in Southeastern China, at the centre of the triangle formed by Shanghai, Hankow, Canton. With neighboring Hunan it forms a natural corridor of parallel rivers and ridges from Central to Southern and Southwestern China. Chinese colonists, early British explorers like Macartney in 1793 and Amherst in 1816, the wildfire Nationalist Armies in 1926-27, the trunk line of the Peking-Hankow-Canton railway-all chose the corridor for their routes. And so, last week, did the Japanese Army...
...These similar names were not adopted out of perversity. All mean something, e.g., Honan is South of the (Yellow) River, Hopeh is North of the (Yellow) River, Hupeh is North of the (Tung Ting) Lake, Hunan is South of the (Tung Ting) Lake...