Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer the embryonic suggestion that Yale attempt to supply some country life to those for whom it is not immediately available. A large tract of land could be procured in the country fairly near New Haven. This property could be equipped with a rambling shack of some kind, and preferably it should include on it a small lake. In the Fall and Spring students could spend their leisure hours there, reading, swimming, and basking in the sun. It might even turn into a "nudist colony"; then Yale would have something besides "architecture" for which it could be discussed all over...
Parts of South America are still wild & woolly country. One of them is jungly eastern Bolivia, which natives call the Chaco, which Author Duguid calls Green Hell. Before Duguid and his two companions (J. C. Bee-Mason and Mamerto Urriolagoitia), to their knowledge no white men had penetrated that tract since Nuflo de Chavez...
...tearoom known as "Ye Anchorage" have been built on the big campus that has never been formally landscaped, still standing are the original four dingy brick buildings with their queer, concave pointed towers. Hard by is the college's Glen Helen, a hilly, 1,000 acre forest tract where a century ago lived a Communistic or Owenite colony. The village of Yellow Springs, named for the oxide of iron in its waters, resembles an oldtime New England town, for Horace Mann attracted many a New England settler when he moved from Massachusetts to Ohio...
...cross the African buffalo, one of the fiercest of the continent's wild beasts, with the common milk-cow, Wynant Davis Hubbard & wife last week departed from Manhattan for a tract of land he has acquired in Rhodesia. Mr. Hubbard is a young Bostonian mining engineer who, soon after the War, went to South Africa to advise an asbestos plant. When he reached the Cape, the job was gone. Desperate, he took a position with a hunting party catching and taming wild animals for zoos. Among the beasts he dealt with (and later described in books) was the native...
...increase of those substances is associated with cancer, and perhaps with other diseases. Dr. Lay Martin of Johns Hopkins is trying to find out, hoping that the proportions of those substances in gastric juices may help early diagnosis of stomach cancer. For some undetermined reasons cancer of the digestive tract has become more frequent recently, observed Dr. Thomas Richardson Brown of Baltimore...