Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the quay, past crowds which cried "Hip! Hip! Hooray!" the party ascended a steep hill to take luncheon near the old Citadel of Quebec, at the magnificent hotel, Chateau Frontenac. There Edward of Wales and Stanley Baldwin rivaled and outdid one another in the suavity and tact of their luncheon speeches...
School book histories of the American Revolution lay great stress upon such striking items as the sparks struck out by Paul Revere's horse or the Bunker Hill order about not firing until the whites of the enemy's eyes were visible. Financial affairs, being less emotional, are less noticed, but still there is usually some mention of Robert Morris, who is described as having lent large sums of money to the Continental Government and later spending many years in a debtor's jail. Last week in Manhattan the Morris story was gone into in some detail, owing...
...PERCY POWELL (Original Subscriber) The Alumni Review, Chapel Hill, N. C. Kudos bestowed by the University of North Carolina last month: LL.D.'s on Federal Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte, N. C.; on State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. T. Allen, and Alfred M. Scales, wealthy Greens boro, N. C., businessman; Sc. D. on Dr. James B. Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute, Manhattan ; D. D. on Bishop Thomas C. Darst of the East Carolina Protestant Episcopal Diocese.-ED. Omitted...
...region of Yermuk, as the quake began, a railway train was chuffing steadily along rails laid on the side of a hill only six feet from the edge of a 300-foot precipice. In one of the cars rode Lieutenant Colonel George Stewart Symes, Acting British High Commissioner for Palestine...
...entitled Applied X-Rays, published by the McGraw-Hill Book Co. of New York City...