Word: savannas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frost was still on the grass at Savanna, Ill. (pop. 6,000) when he told 800 early risers: "I hope you don't catch cold. But I suppose you Illinois folks are used to this weather." As the train rolled along the upper Mississippi, he climbed up into the vista-dome car provided by the Burlington Railroad, gazed out at the great river that licked at the roadbed. He cracked that the Mississippi didn't really get big until it was joined by the Missouri...
Looking back 48 years to his birth in a railroad worker's family in Savanna, Ill., King solemnly says the obvious: "I'm kind of like a Horatio Alger story." King's story includes stretches as newsboy, railway worker, insurance salesman and clarinetist. In 1927 he brought his romantic profile and even more romantic rhythms into Chicago's Aragon Ballroom, and built up a devoted radio audience when he was sponsored by Lady Esther cosmetics. As a radio fixture, he has piled up more than 10,000 programs...
Emphasizing "geographic landscape," Raisz says that "it is more important to know that a region is tropical forest and not desert than that it is 1000 or 2000 feet above sea level--thus, in this atlas, field is distinguished from forest, savanna from desort, tundra from boreal forest. The characteristics of mountains are indicated, cultivated land is shown and omitted are the couniless names of small places. Not to exclude the absence of gay colors showing where countries are--for who can know where the boundary line of the future will...
...little country (54,300 sq. mi., about the size of Wisconsin) is divided in three belts, paralleling the coast-a low, marshy, unnavigable shore line, where only the shallowest boats can go; a strip of savanna, sparsely wooded and creek-ribbed; a little-known, hill-&-mountain interior...