Word: hill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis R. Chauvenet, Esmont, Virginia--Bolment Hill...
Philadelphians know tall, grey Lawyer Scott as the senior partner in the firm of Scott & Burton, a specialist in real-estate practice, the onetime (1907-15) independent Republican floor leader in the Pennsylvania Legislature. His neighbors in Chestnut Hill know him as just the kind of devoted father who takes naturally to doing homework. More than two decades ago Lawyer Scott began answering questions for his daughters Nor (Eleanor), Winkie (Sylvia) and Net (Henrietta), soon extended his advice and counsel to his nephews, Edward and William McKendree Scott Jr. When they were very small, Lawyer Scott taught them to count...
...police motor squad had patrolled the course, the heats began. In the third heat, Jack Wyatt, of Anderson, Ind., wrecked his car by crashing into a dog. After five hours, the crowd, somewhat thinned by the inescapable monotony of the spectacle provided by small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might select...
...Still drawing Government pensions from the War of 1812 are Mrs. Caroline King, 88, East Aurora, N. Y. widow, and Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 80, of Independence, Ore. who was. pensioned as a helpless child because of blindness...
Troy's tale is one of the oldest stories in the world. It has been questioned, sifted, dug into by historians and archeologists, reconstructed by poets. Two epics (the Iliad and Odyssey) and a low hill in Turkey, within sight of the Dardanelles, are all that scholars and poets have had to go on. Laura Riding's A Trojan Ending, not to be confused with such mere literary romances as John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy, probes the dusty pile of Homeric legend with the findings of modern scholarship, discovers...