Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty miles from London stands an historic hill and on it stands an historic Cathedral. Its dark cruciform shape lowers over the countryside, its Norman towers stretch sadly to the sky. It was in the 12th century that workmen first piled stone on stone to fashion the Cathedral of St. Albans. Since then many workmen and architects have rebuilt, altered and toyed, but the Cathedral still stands much as it was first planned by an abbot who wished to honor a martyred saint...
Died. Capt. Luther Sage ("Yellowstone") Kelly, 79, famed Indian scout, foe of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, veteran of Alaska and the Philippines; in Paradise, Calif. Capt. Kelly willed that he be buried in Boot Hill Cemetery (Billings, Mont.), where lie some 40 rascals and heroes who died "with their boots...
Died. Peter J. Hill, onetime chess champion; of old age; in Worcester, Mass. Small of stature, concealed within the "chess automaton," Ajeeb, at the oldtime Eden Musée, Manhattan, Peter J. Hill used to baffle and beat chess champions of international fame. Sometimes he suffered violence in his niche. One defeated chess-woman, enraged, stuck a hatpin into the mouth of the robot, wounded the body of silent Peter J. Hill...
...Jansen '26, seeded third, W. H. Rise, seeded fifth, and F. S. Hill '24, seeded sixth, are among the most prominent of the remaining seeded players J. L. Pool '29, captain of last year's University squash team and present state champion, will be unable to defend his title this year, since he is now residing in another state...
Just what Mr. Enesco's official capacity will be in the University is not definitely settled according to Professor E. B. Hill of the Department of Music but it is certain that in addition to giving the lectures and concerts, Mr. Enesco will act as an unofficial advisor to all students in the music department...