Word: zone
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...wide geographical distribution of the holders of the Doctor's degree is also noteworthy. Nearly every state in the Union and province of Canada is represented, as well as a dozen countries of Europe, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, Egypt, South Africa, India, China, and New Zealand. Through such a wide distribution of its Doctors Harvard University exercises a powerful influence over methods of instruction and research and the training of these men is surely one of the most important services performed by the University...
Please note inclosed editorial from the Star & Herald, Panama, R. P. which ties onto your comment (TIME, March 21, p. 13) regarding the Panama Canal Zone as "one of the chief headquarters" of the international traffic in "white slaves." Control of this traffic at the Canal Zone comes under the Quarantine Officers who are just as diligent against "white slavers" as they are against yellow fever and bubonic plague, and the records at Cristobal show that last year (I quote from a note from the Quarantine Officer, Dr. C. A. Hearne) there were deported "26 modistes or modistas...
Balboa Heights, Canal Zone...
Property damage was estimated from $500,000,000 to a billion. The flooded zone is all rich cotton land. Most of the victims were small farmers-owners of several acres, a few pigs, chickens, cows, a mule. Their lives spared, they saw watery desolation where their possessions had been...
...farthest flight northwest of Barrow, made last year by Captain Wilkins (TIME, April 19), was 100 miles. The area seen by Explorers Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobile from the Norge was a zone varying between 10 and 100 miles in width, due north of Barrow...