Word: hills
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...attend the public schools. This, of course, is equivalent to the suppression of all private and parochial schools and military academies devoted to primary education. Against the law are aligned the two plaintiffs, 1) the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary and 2) the Hill Military Academy, backed by the North Pacific Union of Seventh Day Adventists, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, the Protestant Episcopal Society and the American Jewish Committee. Defending the law were the attorneys of the State of Oregon...
Shoved on the polished bar of the eastern hill-range...
Jeffers, who lives on a promontory at the mouth of the Carmel River, near Monterey, Calif., draws all his imagery from the world about him?cormorants, mustangs, seagulls, corposant hill-fires, barking seals, giant redwood trees, the good and evil winds of heaven, Indian spirit-gods moving by night, mystical wind-torn cypresses, condors, vultures, flowers and seaweeds, soaring California mountains, the illimitable bosom of the Pacific, the Pacific groundswell, ponderous granite boulders, vast shore plains, the unthinkable bottom boundary of the oceans. He hurls his images or bites them out; he rumbles, casts spells, croons, soothes, claps out thunder...
...railroading?the construction of the 1,400 miles "Puget Sound extension" which carried the road from the Middle West to the Pacific Coast, 15 years ago. Previous to this time, the St. Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their lines to the Coast, and the St. Paul faced the dilemma of perishing slowly for lack of through freight, or of entering into transcontinental railroading as a late comer. It assumed the later alternative and, in 1913, assumed the liabilities of the Puget Sound extension, after having advanced...
...year (TIME, Nov. 10), a meeting was held at Fessenden School (near Boston) with a view to setting up a set of entrance examinations for secondary schools similar to the College Entrance Examinations already well established in many colleges. Eighteen schools entered the arrangement: Andover, Arden, Bancroft, Buckley, Chestnut Hill, Exeter, Fessenden, Groton, Hill, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Loomis Institute, Mil ton Academy, Pomfret, Rivers, St. George's, St. Paul's (Concord), Tome Institute...