Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washburn in a member of the Harvard Mountaineering Club. The present lecture is taken from material other when he and a group of other club members went on a trip to Alaska his summer. An unknown lake was discovered and Mount Fairweather was scended to a height of 16,000 feet...
...fashion of the day to devise novel settings for old mysteries, and the "Subway Express", now in production at the Hollis Theatre, is one of the latest examples to remove the melodrama from the more conventional English manor house, or, as was the height of the mode a season or so ago, the New York night club...
...constructed at first; the third will await the raising of sufficient funds for its completion. The architecture is of the modernized Georgian style which is employed in all recent additions in the University. According to plans released last spring by the designing architects, it will be five stories in height, with red brick exterior walls on a reinforced concrete frame, and white steel casement fenestration...
...School of Geography is also under construction on Divinity Avenue, located between the Semitic Museum and the Harvard University Press building, Randall Hall. It will be two stories in height, with a flat roof on which will be placed a chart house. In the rear of the building will be located a lecture room seating 260. A library with a stock room for 80,000 volumes, a map room, chart room, instrument room, and provisions for the study of radio communication and serial photography are to be provided...
...alive can recall the discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859, but many remember the phases of speculation which received their impetus then and burned long like fever throughout the country. In San Francisco this speculation was especially great. Around 1875 the San Francisco Mining Exchange was at its height. Police guarded its doors while the public clamored to buy Bell Isle, whirled by the "Tuscarora Ring" from obscurity to $5.25, then dropped to $1.25, or to buy Bodie, which caused the eastern public the greatest losses of any stock on its mining list. Last week the San Francisco Mining...