Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor E. Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, used blood tests to determine where Eskimos came from. In blood groups, he said, Eskimos are practically identical with American Indians. Therefore they are not descendants of Europe's ice-age population (as one theory maintains), or recent immigrants from Siberia. They are probably Indians who moved north and developed their peculiar culture. This theory, said Dr. Levine, is supported by the fact that ancient Eskimo-like relics have been reported as far south as Manhattan Island...
...seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia is sold at so much per piece...
...went so far in preventive criminology that he became a leader of the pre-revolutionary Socialists whom he was assigned to watch. He betrayed each side to the other, not once or twice, but day in & day out over nearly 20 years. He sent his revolutionary comrades to Siberia and organized the murder of several Czarist bigwigs. Where did his real sympathies lie? Probably with Azef. He managed to get out of the country and lived out his days in Germany, peacefully playing the stockmarket and horsing around at bourgeois seaside resorts (see cut). Azef was the living transition between...
...Pools discovered in Siberia gave Russia the world's greatest oil resources...
...Have No Fear." In greater or lesser degree France's mild weather was reflected throughout Europe, filling many a breast with the clochard's peace of mind. And there were more tangible benefits as well. As last year's evil winds from Siberia had helped the Kremlin's cause by promoting misery and despair, so this year's Atlantic zephyrs favored European recovery. France's wheat crop promised to more than double last year's meager yield of 3.5 million tons. French hydroelectric power was more abundant than at any time since...