Word: regional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pausing to think of Fair Rosamond at the Godstow Nunnery? Boars' Hill, with a view of Oxford on one side and the Berkshire Downs on the other, or Cummor Hurst, or Shotover Hill, are all within easy walking distance. Short cycle rides will open an even more extensive region to the wayfarer with three or four hours to spare. Ewelme and the Chilterns, Sinodun Camp and the Downs, Dorchester with its lovely Abbey-church, lie in one direction; in another is Minster Lovell, on the way to the Cotswolds and those charming hidden villages of the Stone Country; in another...
...highly technical position taken by the Bolivian foreign office is that the HONOR OF BOLIVIA demands that Paraguayan blood be spilled, because Paraguayan TROOPS ATTACKED BOLIVIANS (TIME, Dec. 17) in the disputed area of Gran Chaco, a wild and wooded region of over 100,000 square miles...
Chileans are convinced that theirs is a race of destiny. Even this pretension is not an idle one. By the War of the Pacific (1879-82) Chileans wrested from ineffectual Bolivians the region of Antofagasta and from Peruvians not only Tarapaca but Arica an Tacna...
...region in which Nuzi lies is on the borders of Babylon and Assyria, and was in antiquity occupied by a people known as the Guti, the ruins of whose cities are now represented by numerous mounds The Guti seem not to have been Semites, but probably of Hittite origin. Most of the proper names in the inscriptions from Nuzi are non-Semitic. Many of these, such as Durar-Teshub, Shar-Teshub, have as their second element the name of the chief Hittite god, Teshub. The language of the inscriptions is Assyrian, with considerable intermixture of non-Assyrian words...
...From Mr. Koussevitzky's lowest string issues a tone purged of all raucousness, noble and superb, and from thence upward the scale is pure, euphonious, beguiling? upward to the region of the flageolet tones, where Mr. Koussevitzky's harmonies have a clear, ethereal and crystalline loveliness that challenges credulity...