Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alex S. D. Hill, 90, brother of the late great Railroader James Jerome ("Empire Builder") Hill; at Guelph...
Five minutes to noon. Massed along the pavements of London's Ludgate Hill last week and down the Strand were thousands of excited school children, cynical salesladies, brokers, clerks. Noon. Bow Bells, all the bells of London, clanged in tingling cacophony. An escort of mounted police clattered up the empty street and the great procession started. The Worshipful His Lordship, the new Lord Mayor of London was on has way from Guildhall to take his oath of office at the Courts of Justice in the Strand...
...miles around the verdure was burnt and hideous. Pilot Richardson swung his plane lower. Haciendas, coffee plantations had disappeared. The flanks of Santa Maria were streaked with wrinkled beds of steaming lava, moving in ponderous streams toward the sea. In the midst of the lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept higher. There was no possible escape. Even in the plane the heat was almost unbearable...
...Last week the I. C. C. authorized the reopening of the 17½-mile Hill City Railway. Armour and Co. recently sold it to the citizens of Hill City, Minn., for a bargain price...
South: Alabama Poly v. Georgia Tech at Auburn; Florida v. Washington & Lee at Jacksonville; Johns Hopkins v. Maryland at Baltimore; Kentucky v. Tennessee at Lexington; North Carolina v. Virginia at Chapel Hill; Texas Aggies v. Texas at College Station; Vanderbilt v. Sewanee at Nashville; V.M.I. v. V.P.I. at Roanoke; Alabama v. Georgia at Birmingham...