Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco had been transformed to a city built on nuggets and gold dust. A new social order was being created; life was becoming stable; respectability and stolidity were in the air. But there were still those who lived high, wide & handsome. The old Poodle Dog, Tail's, the Cliff House and Coffee Dan's had no lack of carefree customers...
...type. How many know this introduction, which is to appear in a prominent new English grammar book as a sample of beautiful writing: "The earth sighed as it turned on its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides...
...Marine Corps, veteran of Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, World War battles; in a landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive...
Among the Habbe cliff-dwellers Seabrook found everything topsy-turvy. A thief is punished with death, for they argue that if he steals once he will do it again, and as no one keeps his valuables locked up, stealing must be kept down. But if a man commits murder they all mourn with him, then he departs on a three-year exile. When he comes back the murdered man's nearest relative and the murderer's next of kin procreate a child, who is given the murdered man's name; then they call quits...
With a climb at Rattlesnake Cliff. West Quincy, the Harvard Mountaineering Club opens its spring season tomorrow afternoon. This first climb of the season will be devoted to the instruction of beginners, and practice in technique for those more advanced. Following this climb there will be a number of other local climbs which lead up to several weekend trips in the White Mountains and adjacent mountains. All these climbs will be under the tutelage of men who have had world wide experience in mountaineering...