Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motorwoman Alexandra had permitted a personable young man to ride the quarterdeck of No. 56 with her. With throttle open, brakes off, they whizzed downhill from Dzerjinski Place to Theatre Place while traffic scattered and passengers clung screaming to their seats. At the bottom of the hill the car jumped the tracks so violently that its body was torn from the trucks. One woman was killed, six persons gravely injured. Alexandra Semeena, built of stern stuff, was unscathed. Inspectors discovered that the brakes were in perfect condition, had not even been applied...
...themselves at an afternoon tea. There the judges and trustees (of which Professor Savage is one) of the American Academy in Rome inspect each individual. The judges' choice, traditionally a personable as well as talented young man, receives from the Academy a studio and residence on Rome's Janiculum Hill for three years?an honorarium valued at about $8,000?plus $500 in traveling expenses...
This proclamation, which may have given an idea to Tobacco Tycoon George Washington Hill ("Lucky Strike") and his ad writers, was made in 1891. That was when the Pinkham business was booming and its ads were appearing in newspapers all over the U. S. At first, back in the 1870's, the Vegetable Compound's virtues were hidden under bushels of handbills. It was Lydia's son Will who first discarded the handbills, introduced the Compound in newspaper advertising columns. In the midst of mounting bills for printed circulars, Will was sent to Boston to cash...
HARVARD M. I. T. Hill, No. 1 No. 1, Dame Ingraham, No. 2 No. 2, Jones Frame, No. 3 No. 3, Studley Patterson, No. 4 No. 4, Fenstil Thompson, No. 5 No. 5, Regan Inglis, No. 6 No. 6, Ross...
Coach Janvrin seems to have a wealth of battery material and may start either Gorman, Lainer, Sprague, or Taylor on the hill...