Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nebraska's richest woman, Sarah Selleck Joslyn, opened her $3,000,000 pink marble Joslyn Memorial on an Omaha Hill. It is an art museum in memory of her late husband George who made his fortune from a remedy for venereal disease ("Big G") and from the Western Newspaper Union (boilerplate insides for small newspapers). For her Memorial Room she wanted an oil portrait of her spouse. After several painters had refused to do a reconstruction painting from photographs, Chicago Painter Paul Trebilcock did the job. In January the portrait was hung in the Joslyn Memorial but Mrs. Joslyn...
...sent to see Dean Christian Gauss. But Dean Gauss knew that this small, coffee-colored freshman was right. He was H. R. H. Prince Prasob Mom Chow Sukhavasti, nephew of Siam's Queen Rambai Barni. A sturdy little fellow who had captained the boxing team at Chestnut Hill Academy near Philadelphia-and been handed an interscholastic prize by Princeton's President Hibben-he settled down to work at college, taking particular interest in economics. His presence caused Princeton little excitement. Only a few years before (Class of 1923) Princeton had had a Siamese-popular little Boon Pitrachat...
Again last week the innards of Carbon Mountain, a hill in the southwest corner of Colorado three miles south of Durango, churned and rumbled. Fissures opened in its slopes, oozed warm earth. Surface rock, amateurishly estimated as 25 million tons, avalanched down into Animas Valley to the north and might have rumbled on into Durango> did not Smelter Mountain intervene as a retaining wall. But Durango's citizens were calm. The breakup of Carbon Mountain has been going on since mid-December...
HELEN CUSTER BISHOP (His Cousin) Chestnut Hill...
Artificial Musk. The male musk deer ranges Central Asia with an alluring odor. Perfumers cannot get enough of the natural musk for their trade, have got chemists to produce trinitro-t-butyl toluene which smells exactly like the real stuff. At Washington, Julian Werner Hill and Wallace Hume Carothers of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. described new ways of imitating musk...