Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a time Señor Espil trotted into Cordell Hull's paper-cluttered office. But more often he went to the cool gardens of Oxon Hill, Maryland, where poised Mr. Welles lives like an English squire. There they talked ways & means of climbing hurdles One to Five, especially how to convince Espil's boss, Minister Lamas, that with the U. S., not Great Britain, lay Argentina's future...
...Safest spot near London was judged to be Harrow, because the steeple on its hill is German aviators' prime landmark approaching London from the Channel and they would not likely bomb it down...
...varsity cross-country team was undefeated, and led both Yale and Princeton in the annual triangular hill-and-dale grind. The swimming team lost only to Brown, Yale and Princeton. The basketball team fared poorly. The tennis team had a mediocre season, but during the summer combined with Yale to defeat an Oxford-Cambridge squad at Eastbourne, England...
TIME erred in geographical detail. Heidelberg Castle looks down on the Rhine valley from its hill above the little tributary Neckar...
Irate mobs did not denounce Joseph Smith as loafer, drunkard, Satan's instrument, until he had refused to tell the hiding place of the golden plates. After they had dug up most of the Palmyra Hill of Cumorah without finding the gold, they drove him out of New York State. After the Mormon bank in Kirtland, Ohio failed during the panic of 1837, mobs in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois tarred & feathered Smith, lynched his followers. Non-Mormons envied the prosperous, fast-growing Mormon city of Nauvoo, feared a well-trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political...