Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Hill. "Too young a man," objected the Harvard Overseers, but the Corporation insisted. Alarm followed as 35-year-old President Eliot proceeded, in Oliver Wendell Holmes' words, to "turn the place over like a flapjack...
...Hill Woman...
...abiding literature of this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon the reader, like a vine of bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from her roaming, horse-swapping, white-trash parents. The father settles as a tenant-helper on tobacco farms and Ellen's maidenhood is more stable. Her lanky, hungry little frame rounds out and her nature, though always...
Last week, instead of firing rockets, sizzling pinwheels, Germans went to recitals, read appreciations, climbed a long hill outside Bayreuth, Bavaria, where dwells...
...branch line of railroad takes you from the shabby Greensboro station an hour or two back through the hills to a smart, new station. Like as not the Travelers Aid attendant will invite you to use her telephone instead of the pay-booth. She is Winston-Salem's first hostess and sets the pace for hospitality. Climbing a steep green hill you arrive in the city's centre, where a huge factory, trim and modernized, notifies you at once of the city's presiding power: REYNOLDS...