Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spreading eastward. Last year it was discovered for the first time in Colorado and North Dakota.* Says a U.S. Public Health Service doctor: "There is no reason to assume that the infection will not spread to the rodents of the Great Plains and into the Mississippi Valley and Eastern...
This did not sound as if the Russians were ready to give in, no matter how desperately the war was going against them in the valley of the Don (see p. 22). Neither did the Russian people show signs of wanting a break with their allies. The Russians wanted a second front and said so. Their newspapers printed accounts of second-front rallies in the U.S. and Britain. But there was no carping criticism of their allies' war efforts. In the Caspian, the Volga valley and in Moscow the man-in-the-street hailed U.S. and British citizens with...
...surveyed for six days, drop ping sleeping bags and food, never daring a landing. The stranded men watched and bit chapped lips. On the seventh day they saw the flying boat swoop low and disappear into the snow. Pilot Parunak had found a "dimple" of water filling an ice valley twelve miles away, had chanced a landing on this temporary lake. He set Balchen's rescue party ashore, then took off again to direct them to the Fortress. The rescue party fought its way on skis through a heavy storm, reached the Fortress after two days, got the crew...
...most magnificent feats of Mayan architecture. Not only boosted were the reputations of Archeologists Caso and Acosta, but that of the bearded god Quetzalcoatl as well. For it proved that the people over whom he ruled deserved their reputation as the most civilized race that ever inhabited the sunbaked valley of Mexico...
Russian troops retreating through the Caucasus have put the torch to the wheat fields and granarles of the Kuban valley, one of the richest farm areas in the country, Moscow announced Sunday, and the Germans claimed to have captured both Maikop and Krasnodar, pipe line and refinery centers of the Maikop oil fields...