Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 4,000 miles from Arequipa, Peru, where the fine under-hairs of the vicuña's fleece bring around $14 a pound, dwells Sylvan I. Stroock. His S. Stroock & Co., Inc. of New York is the leading U. S. manufacturer of rare expensive fabrics-camel's hair, llama, cashmere and vicuña, most costly of all these...
Died. Harriet Monroe, 75, Chicago poet, founder & editor of the magazine Poetry, which first published the poems of Hilda Doolittle ("H. D."), Joyce Kilmer's Trees, Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven; of cerebral hemorrhage; at Arequipa, Peru...
...Mars. Bristling, pastel-colored Andean peaks whose ice-covered escarpment separates like some fabulous wall-top of broken glass the nations of Argentina and Chile. Nitrates waiting at the port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored volcanic stone, young and fresh throughout the centuries as the face of a nun. Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback. La Paz, where giant mushrooms are split with an axe, used for fuel. Lake Titicaca, world's highest, where one suffers from seasickness and mountain sickness...
...need of having an observatory in the southern hemisphere if they wished to study the entire heavens became apparent. The one in Cambridge could only photograph the region of the sky in what in called the North Colestial Pole, so a station was established in Arequipa, Peru, for photographic work on the southern skies...
...generous gift of $50,000 from Miss Catherine Bruce of New York City, a 24-inch Doublet was ordered by Professor Pickering from Alvan Clarke and Sons, and was sent to the southern station at Arequipa, Peru, elevation 8000 feet. Although this unprecedented size for a doublet was strongly criticized in those days, the glass has been effective and is responsible for 16,000 negatives in the Harvard collection, most of them 14 by 17 inches in size...