Word: regionalizing
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...Murray was the first man to conceive the project of a superpower station for the region between Boston and Washington and urged the late Mr. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to make a survey of the source of energy in New England and along the Atlantic Seaboard as far South as Washington. The survey considered the economic possibilities of interconnecting existing electric power plants and systems in the zone and building of new plants...
...largest cities not situated on navigable waters; a source of electric power in Africa; a mountain range of the complex type; the seat of an ancient civilization in Central America; a powerful city of ancient Syria, now fallen into decay; a country at the headwaters of the Nile; a region in the Southern Hemisphere with a monsoon climate; a French possession in the West Indies...
...Emile F. Gautier of the University of Algiers, the French Exchange Professor, will deal with the geography or northern Africa and the Near East. It will be a historical as well as a geographical course, however; Professor Gautier will consider the customs and types of people living in this region, and will go on to a stuly of what the European Powers have done with it and are doing with it. The course will be open both to graduate students and undergraduates and will be given in English...
...stated that this tremor was not unforseen as geologists had been expecting a similar disturbance in this particular locality for several years. They were led to this forecast from the fact that the shock was centered in the belt between the great earthquake of Mount St. Elias in the region of Alaska, and the San Francisco district. The former disturbance, which occurred in 1899, was the greatest shock that has taken place in North America since the white man's occupancy, while the San Francisco disaster was a serious shakeup in the earth's crust. The section between these...
Boston's port, according to the Herald, is "lapsing into a condition of innocuous desuetude." And Professor Ripley, in urging the rehabilitation of New England railroads, says: "This must take place through a mustering of all the financial resources of the region, public as well as private, if necessary. The industrial preservation of New England demands it. The present plight is avowedly critical...