Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large campuses have little groups of earnest and not badly informed serious thinkers bewildering themselves about the modern world, but their influence on the tone of the campus is as narrow as that of the local Phi Beta Kappa. . . . There is hardly a trace of it in the Mississippi Valley...
...South, for basketball purposes, is divided into two conferences: Southern, which includes colleges in most of the Atlantic Coast States, and Southeastern, which includes colleges in the deep South and the Mississippi Valley. In each the championship is decided, not by the round-robin of scheduled games, but in a post-season tournament among the Conference leaders. Last week Washington & Lee beat North Carolina 29-to-19, a game that was important since both are sure to be in the Southern Conference tournament at Durham, N. C. March 5-7. Southeastern Conference's major game of the week...
...prehistoric times, human beings from the once verdant Sahara desert settled in the valley of the Nile and were forced by the difficulties of making a living to use their brains. Here and in the lands to the east arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted...
...Washington, the Bureau of Biological Survey reported that the Ohio valley floods had drowned, frozen or starved millions of raccoons, black bears, jumping mice, chipmunks, woodchucks, muskrats, opossums...
...Angeles needed water, and agitation started in 1902 culminated a few years later in the construction of the Owens Valley aqueduct, a project which could incidentally develop considerable power. Employed as a consulting engineer on the job, Mr. Scattergood showed the city that it could sell power cheaper than the private utilities and still make enough profit to pay for all construction. Upshot was formation of what is now the potent Los Angeles Power Bureau with Mr. Scattergood as chief electrical engineer & general manager, a job he has held ever since...