Word: regionalizing
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...declared that the U. S. is in sympathy with the movement to restrict the traffic in arms and that by resolution of Congress the President has power to place an embargo on arms to any American country or region under the extraterritorial jurisdiction...
...basing of quotas on the census of 1890 instead of on the census of 1910 will enlarge relatively the quotas from northern Europe, as compared to southern, because immigration from the latter region has taken place mostly since...
...local significance. Besides massing his countrymen behind him, he informs the world of his policies for the coming week and of his conclusions on the week that is past. Inspired by the devastations around him for his speeches have all been made in small towns in the invaded region. It is natural that his utterances should be colored by emotion. But they have been masterful and scholarly as well...
...long periods in a sort of hibernation. Dr. Robertson advocates a flea survey of the cities of the Atlantic Coast to verify the details of the life cycle of Bacillus pestis, the causative organism. If fleas are relatively abundant on rats at all seasons of the year in this region, the absence of plague must be wholly accidental. But if there are few or no fleas during the cold months, theories regarding the carriers of plague would seem to be on the wrong track, and some other explanation must be found...
There will be a total solar eclipse in New England in the Winter of 1925, but the sun will be too low on the horizon for good observation. There will be no other good chance in any populous region for many years...