Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Turn Bull, Tenn., a boy named Art Lankford stepped out of the old log schoolhouse and walked up the hill a ways and caught hold of the tail of a bull yearling, the young bull started to run, they both landed in the old schoolhouse in books hours...
...Munitions Committee could not consider the request immediately because Missouri's plump Senator Bennett Champ Clark last week tumbled down a flight of stairs in his home, was too sore to go to Capitol Hill. Senator Nye saw ''no reason to question the motives of Mr. Hearst...
Edward of Wales, leaving Vienna behind (see above), arrived last week in Hungary's capital, did the rounds of Pest on the flat east bank of the Danube, then the rounds of Buda on its hill on the west bank. All Budapest joined the usual peekaboo chase after H. R. H.-all except the rickety old Hungarian aristocrats who spend their days steaming stark naked in the hot springs pool of Gellert's Municipal Baths in Buda.* There, far from the grand hotels and cafés of Pest where Edward was disporting himself, the old Magyars went...
...grade ore, averaging less than 1% copper, from the deepest mine in North America, the famed Conglomerate shaft which has passed a vertical depth of 5,000 ft. Such lean ore had never before been mined so far down. In open-pit mining, which means simply shoveling away a hill of exposed ore (as at Bingham, Utah), lodes down to 8/10 of 1% can be handled profitably. Deep-vein mining entails the cost of tunneling, drilling, blasting, hoisting, ventilating. Mining engineers consider Mr. MacNaughton's achievement remarkable because his deep ore was only slightly higher than the lowest grade...
...them outdoors and point to a beautiful Gothic skyscraper rising through the city's smoke from the University campus. That skyscraper is Pitt's Cathedral of Learning, whose exterior is done but whose interior awaits the raising of more millions. As the four men walked up the hill toward it, the pale, intense, esthetic Chancellor told his companions what the Cathedral means to him. It was his vision; it is his life work; it will be his monument. To build it, a "spiritual symbol" for the city and the University, he has spent 14 years wheedling money from...