Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night four years ago, on a hill above the black water of Seattle's Lake Washington, gyrating torchlights shed their glow upon the heads and shoulders of hundreds of young men and women, undergraduates of the University of Washington. They were vigorously and visibly protesting against the enforced resignation of President Henry Suzzallo, who, the young men and women told each other, was being dismissed without a hearing from Washington by Governor Roland H. Hartley (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen...
Social workers know Dr. Cabot's great love for music. He is a good violinist, likes to attend symphony concerts. Twenty-five years ago he started Boston's custom of singing Christmas carols on Beacon Hill. Every Christmas since then he has led the singing band himself, except for 1917 when he was serving in France. Then he amused the people of Bordeaux with his Christmas carolling procession...
...Slate rewrite its constitution. As a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1916 he helped nominate Charles Evans Hughes for the Presidency. In 1917 at a special election, as the friend of the late John T. King, he was sent to Congress to succeed the late Ebenezer Hill, has been continuously re-elected ever since...
...Fountain Hill, near Danville, Va., Frank W. Davis, 60, farmer, started to starve himself to death May 12, because he was too old to work, because he had no relatives. He took no food, only water. Last week he was still alive, to his neighborhood's amazement, but not to Medicine's. On June 7, threatened with commitment to the insane asylum, he took food again, having fasted 26 days...
...start, wheeling and breaking, but all at once the 17 were in a line and then the line was broken, closing to the rail, with one horse pulling out in front. It was Diolite, the favorite, with Ballyferris after him. When they had made the long run up the hill. Rustom Pasha, the Aga Khan's first-string horse, moved out, passed the tiring Diolite and led the way down toward Tattenham Corner. Then Diolite was close again neck & neck with Rustom Pasha at the turn, with Iliad third as they came sharp around...