Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salmon, Idaho, five beavers (Castor canadensis) came downstream on Jesse Creek and built a dam within 100 feet of a site selected by reclamation engineers, thus stabilizing the uncertain water supply and saving the city the cost...
Zoologist-Writer William Beebe (Jungle Peace), sailing for Bermuda, where defense activities were making a mess of his marine laboratory, spoke hopefully of starting another laboratory. Possible site: near the peaceful jungle of Brazil...
Britons and native Trinidadians do not altogether welcome the Navy's coming. For the Navy site is where Port-of-Spain has done its weekending. Upper-class British can find other beaches and cruising grounds, but where the Negroes and Trinidad's proud Hindu and Moslem Indians can go for their fun, they do not know...
With a terrible, pregnant symbolism, World War II jumped last week from the birthplace of democracy to the birthplace of mankind. Five days after Athens fell, fighting broke out in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden. In its beginning the new conflict was a minor embarrassment to Britain; in its potentialities it was a threat as serious as any the British Empire had yet suffered...
...winter's training had left its unmistakable mark on the men of the First, and the First had left its mark on the camp site at Guantanamo, as Marines have long marked the remote places on the Caribbean. Last week a U.S. civilian airplane pilot, crossing the water between Puerto Rico and the island of Vieques, looked for the pasture emergency field there. He had no trouble finding it. On the side of a hill his eye caught the red, white & blue of a huge stone U.S. flag alongside the globe & anchor of the Corps emblem. A legend...