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...Sawyer, was captured two days later at Chickasha after a gun fight during which a man he had kidnapped and was using as a shield was seriously wounded. It was guessed that the rest had holed in among the ravines and abandoned lead and zinc mines of the Ozark Plateau, which once harbored such oldtime bandits as Jesse James and the Dalton Brothers...
They became Italians after the War when victorious Italy claimed Istria at the Peace Conference to help "make the Adriatic an Italian lake." Italy cared little about the grapes, cattle and lumber that grew on Istria's terraced plateau; Italy wanted a naval base. But when the Italian Government took a closer look at its new citizens it found that nine out of ten of them had symptoms of malaria. The plateau was full of semi-stagnant ponds where mosquitoes bred and rose in clouds...
...faults extend westward through the Himalayas, the Persian plateau, Asia Minor, the Mediterranean. The Atlantic and its coasts are comparatively stable...
Kellogg is a resident of St. Paul. When home, he dwells in a spacious, squatty, fenced-in, brownstone mansion, diademing St. Paul's exclusive Crocus Hill. From his attic window he can see. two miles across a low-lying plateau, the majestic bluffs of the Mississippi River, where this gay young stream flirts sharply around a bend to escape from Minneapolis sewage...
...annual survey of U. S. college enrolments. His figures cover 438 approved colleges and universities, whose 855,863 students, part and fulltime, represent 80% of the total in all U. S. higher institutions. Dr. Walters finds this total enrolment 7% under 1931 but greater than 1927, "so that the plateau of higher education in this country is substantially maintained...