Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another difference was the distribution of water. The Colorado drains seven States -Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California. The first four, the Upper Tier, have long been agreed on their shares of the water. The Lower Tier-Nevada, Arizona, California -have long quarreled about how to divide the 7,500,000 acre-feet that they will get between them. Nevada was satisfied with 300,000 acre feet; California wanted 4,600,000, Arizona 3,000.000. After sharp remarks between California's whitecrested Johnson and Arizona's long-embattled Ashurst and Hayden, the Senate voted Nevada...
...Russian missions in Chinese Turkestan and in Mongolia. The two Koslov missions of 1907 and 1922 have revealed to us the extent of the Hsi-hsia literature, in the late middle ages, today absolutely unknown, and the importance of the relations between Western Asia and the Far East via Upper Mongolia at the beginning of the Christian Era. As to the missions in Chinese Turkestan, they have shown, unexpectedly, that Chinese Turkestan, now inhabited by a Turkish population of Mohammedans, was untill the end of the first millennium A. D. the area of a Buddhist culture, developed by a population...
Saturday's matches, as the scores indicate, were all rather one-sided with the Harvard players holding the upper hand throughout...
...Upper Yosemite (Calif...
...great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles on her Irishman's long upper lip, will be on her feet, ready to hunt...