Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood Michigan's Cramton to say: "It is interesting to me to see what the policy is to be of the wet block in the House as presented by its newly chosen leader, the gentleman from Maryland. The policy of our other friend from Maryland, John Philip Hill, was to destroy the Eighteenth Amendment by authorizing beer and wine, but it is apparent that the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Linthicum], the new leader, has on his banner, 'Hamstring enforcement...
...Angeles property owners at once engaged Geologist Robert Thomas Hill of the University of California, onetime (1889-1904) member of the U. S. Geological Survey, to examine the terrestrial underpinning of Los Angeles and make an announcement "to the world." There was little doubt but what this report would mitigate, if not wholly crush, the Willis doctrine. In seismology, as in medicine, so many factors must be surmised that from the few known facts, paid experts may arrive honorably as often as willfully at different conclusions...
Geologer Willis chanced to be away from California, lecturing in Ohio, when, last fortnight, Geologer Hill's retort professional was given "to the world" by the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly). Whether or not the world heard, the Graphic made sure that Geologer Willis would hear. Of him it said, with good-natured Californian venom: "God must have tipped him off ... the incondite ravings of a mischief maker. ... It is generally believed that Dr. Willis' service to the fire insurance underwriters was substantially rewarded...
...Willis predictions and the security of Los Angeles, the Hill report said: "From the first time I heard these cries of disaster and from the time I began to investigate them, I knew that they were ill-founded and that some, as yet unexposed fallacy lay at the base of them. These doubts were based upon a long acquaintance with the geologic and historic facts of Southern California. We, of Southern California, where engineering skill has long been at its highest, knew that no such movements had occurred here within the recollection of man. If so, our aqueduct across...
...winter nights he could imagine that the cold wind crying at his window was still blowing snowdrifts over an army's fires. In 1903 he outlined the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. That same year, 125 years after Washington's soldiers had marched down the hill to win a war, the cornerstone of the Washington Memorial Chapel was laid, and the life work of Dr. William Herbert Burk began in earnest...