Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like ants emerging from a wrecked sand hill, Chicago citizens twisted and wriggled themselves out of their white entombment, proclaimed their plight to the world. Street traffic stalled completely, until 20,000 shovelers dug narrow channels through the drifts. Schools all closed when attendance dropped to 20%. The snow even blanketed crime: not one case was docketed in Morals Court during the blizzard; only six robberies were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars...
...This association purchased Monticello, Jefferson home, atop a hill outside Charlottesville, Va.. made it a public memorial. Many an architect considers Monticello a finer example of early American architecture than Washington's Mt. Vernon...
...September, 1823, Joseph Smith, son of a New York farmer, claimed that he had talked with a radiant nocturnal visitor who caused him to be led, by divine guidance, to a lonely hill near the village of Manchester, N. Y., where he discovered numerous engraved and lettered plates of gold in a cachet of stone. Annually for four years he returned to look at the plates; then they were delivered to him by his spectral visitor. In 1830 there was first published The Book of Mormon, purporting to be a translation of the plates accomplished with divinely acquired erudition...
...John Meigs, his patriarchal Presbyterian father, had raised The Hill to a high place among U. S. preparatory-schools. His mother, "Mrs. John," remained at the school, a matriarchal and religious influence, an embodiment of Hill tradition, while the young King carried on after his father's death. He had been to Yale and Oxford. He had firm ideas about efficiency of body and mind. He administered the school as a business concern, left teaching to the teachers, led prayers like a chairman-of-the-board. An able tennis player, he coached the tennis team, then mastered golf mechanically...
Yale 3. Harvard 1. Hill (Y) defeated F. C. Fiechter Jr. '32, 1-0; and Wesselman, 1-0. Walker (Y) defeated Fiechter, 1-0. Wesselman defeated Walker...