Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faces, some of whom Cleveland had not seen since 1924 when her new Public Hall needed no WPA renovation and Calvin Coolidge was nominated. C. Bascom Slemp from Virginia, David A. Reed from Pennsylvania, Ralph E. Williams from Oregon, Walter F. Brown from nearby Toledo, Jim Watson over the border from Indiana, Charles G. Dawes from Chicago, came trooping in. So did the Elephant's ladies, Alice Longworth from Cincinnati, Ruth Hanna [McCormick] Simms, now from New Mexico, Ruth Baker Pratt from New York. Crowds seethed in hotel lobbies. Fat men sweated in hotel rooms. Newshawks scuffled after rumors...
...freighter that took them from Los Angeles down around South America, and after riding out a hurricane, through the sinister Straits of Magellan. Once ashore, they had a long, hard trip by truck and horseback to get to the mountain sheep-ranch they were heading for, almost on the border between Argentina and Chile. The man they sought was known variously as "El Jimmy," "El Gringo Malo" or "El Ingles." Native of a Berkshire village who had come to Patagonia after some mild poaching affairs and more serious trouble with a girl, his real name was James Radburne. He characterized...
...impossible that over twelve thousand examinations could be corrected and graded without error. And it is only natural that students on the border line of a certain group of the rank list should find that error and wonder if something could not be done about it. Still there is something to be said on the side of the instructor who sends his grades to University Hall and foolishly imagines his year's work done until the avalanche of requests for grade changes deposits him turbulently in the midst of another maelstrom...
...Paso (pop. 103.000), biggest border town, is crowded with Mexicans, tourists, consumptives. Small Laredo has begun to rival it for Mexican trade, is counting on a boom as U. S. starting point of the new Pan-American Highway. Brownsville, once headquarters for Confederate blockade runners, is now a market town for the Lower Rio Grande's fruits & vegetables. Once a smuggling port known as "Colonel Kinney's Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort...
Nanda Devi is 25,662 feet in height and located in the Sikhim Himalaya range, about 60 miles from the Tibetan border. Although there are nine higher peaks than Nandi Devi, including Everest, none have ever been climbed, and, unless Everest goes down to defeat this summer, success in reaching the summit of Nanda Devi would give the Harvard climbers the honor of scaling the highest peak ever reached...