Word: valley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will go to Laconia, Plymouth, Waterville Valley (leave bus at West Campton Post Office on going trip and entrain at Campton railroad station on return trip), North Woodstock, Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton, White River Junction (Tamworth, Wonalancet, Chocorus), Conway, North Conway, Intervale (Jackson, Bartlett, Glen, Pinkham Notch...
...heart of this new country is the mountain-girdled upper valley of the Yangtze, an area approximately 1,000 miles from East to West and 1,300 miles from North to South. Below it lie the steaming jungles of Burma and French Indo-China, west of it lie the mountain fastnesses of Tibet, northwestward the desert plateaus of Turkestan (Sinkiang) and Mongolia...
...since the fall of Constantinople in 1351 has there been such a striking example of a whole civilization pulling up its roots and moving elsewhere. The Government, the Army, much of China's cultural and industrial life and millions of refugees from the devastated eastern Yangtze valley set out to a new "New China" in the hinterland which had been frantically prepared during 18 months of war. The new "New China" is composed of the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Szechuan, Kangsu, Sikang, Tsinghai, and the Chinese Communist-held province of Shensi-places which two years ago seemed...
...Chiang is driven from the upper Yangtze valley, he may eventually have to retire to the Soviet-controlled areas of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia. Should that occur China's cause will necessarily become Russia's battle. For Russia cannot tolerate a Japanese threat to the long southern border of Siberia and the trans-Siberian railroad. But before that can happen Japan, which conquered one New China, will have to conquer still another New China not so strong in resources but much stronger in natural defenses...
...LONG VALLEY-John Steinbeck- Viking...