Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...territories are united under our flag. The whole of Istria, with Gorizia, Gradisca and Trieste as far as the River Isonzo, the city and Province of Zara, the island of Cherso, Lussin Grande and Lus-sin Piccolo, Lagosta and Pelagosa, as well as southeastern Slavonia, are now in Italian hands. Northern Corinthia and Styria are now Austrian. Northern Belanja and the Province of Mur are now Hungarian. The Eastern Banat is now Rumanian. The Provinces of Vidin and Stredac are now Bulgarian. Scutari in Northern Albania is now Albanian...
...Thus 2,000,000 Chinese perished through drowning and starvation after the crops in Honan province had been destroyed by the great, classic flood of 1887-1889. So recently as 1925, Shantung (parched last summer) was inundated by a relatively slight overflow of the great Hwang Ho ("Yellow River") which none the less washed away crops sufficient to feed millions for a year...
Self Help. Through more than two millenniums of alternate droughts and floods the Chinese have not supinely disdained to help themselves. Time was when the Yellow River shifted its course among the Chinese coastal lowlands after every flood, meandering scores of miles from its previous channels. So late as 1852 its waters principally flowed into the Yellow Sea at a point some 300 miles below its present main issuance into the Gulf of Chihli. But throughout the last millennium extensive systems of dikes have been gradually thrown up to restrain such rivers as the yellow Hwang Ho, and huge drainage...
...some 660.000 acres in Shensi were benefiting by a prudent irrigation system. But toilsome Chinese efforts, both before and since, have availed less in relieving droughts than have their partially successful flood control methods (success being measured by the proud statement of Chinese scholars that the great Yellow River has completely altered its course only three times in the last millennium...
Where the Lehigh River joins the Delaware they strap New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Then up through the cliff-hugged Lehigh Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet...