Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, when they began selling what they used to give away, the Boettigers found 25,000 Phoenicians ready to buy the Boettigers' Arizona Times. They hoped soon to add a wire service. Some Southwest publishers muttered that John must have wangled his Swedish newsprint with help from his mother-in-law, the State Department or both; he insisted that he had done it all himself...
...indication is the excellent health of World War II troops in the jungles and tropical heat of the Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia. Two teams of U.S. and Canadian Army doctors and scientists, seizing a ready-made opportunity to conduct one of the first big-scale studies ever made of white men in the tropics, examined thousands of U.S. and British soldiers on Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, Burma. Findings...
Once a happy hunting ground of the Indians and the background for a Norse saga, the noble Charles maintains its dignity despite the aqueous encroachments of the University. Rising from its headwaters in the town of Hopkinton, southwest of Cambridge, the Charles follows a circuitons course for sixty-nine miles to its mouth in Boston Bay, draining along its way about 300 square miles of good Massachusetts soil. Twenty-six artificial dams scattered along the river might interest any men who contemplate an upstream journey in a canoe to Wellesley...
France is building an "atomic village" for 2,000 workers at Saclay, ten miles southwest of Paris, and has a large-scale program headed by Nobel Prizewinner (and Communist Party member) Frederic Joliot-Curie; his staff includes several men who helped plan the Chalk River project. Britain has set up five centers, with experimental piles near Oxford, and has already spent...
Dominating the southern end of the quadrangle is the massive Widener Library, largest university library in the United States. Facing it at the north end is the Memorial Church, built in remembrance of Harvard's dead in World War I. In the southwest corner stands Lehman Hall, headquarters of the Superintendent of caretakers and of University bill collectors...