Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Tobacco Co. (Percival S. Hill, President) is by far the most potent of U. S. tobacco manufacturers. It was incorporated in 1904; dissolved as a trust...
...most original feature of the landscape is the cemetery in which lie those two sires of even wortheir stock, Mr. Root and Mr. Beer--lie so near in fact that the names on their granite shafts make sense when read from left to right as one crosses the hill. Here I once wandered with an old lady of uncertain step and wavering voice who was later proved the village lunatic. She was the only woman I have ever convinced of the beauties of a cemetery...
...best chance to triumph over my weakened condition, in Emerson J. The Plelade Cement Marot, Montaigne and Pascal, great names of the high Renaissance in France, will be his subject.--Then there are at noon Professor Demos in Emerson A, on "Ethics as an Art," and Professor Hill in his Cast lecture on Borodin in the Music Building, one of which should make me cross the Yard...
Beside a bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened...
...smiles. It came from the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks at Stockton, Calif., and was a "way bill" representing a carload of smiles. It had been indorsed en route by many railworkers. The second gift consisted of two arrowheads from Fort Minis, Ala., presented by Representative Hill of that state, one to the President, one to Mrs. Coolidge. The third was a bushel of potatoes, "large Idaho russet," sent by the Idaho Chamber of Commerce and presented, on the anniversary of Idaho's admission to the Union, by Miss Toussaint Dubois (daughter of the first Senator from Idaho...