Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appellate Division decided the act was unconstitutional. Said the court: sliding down a hillside is one act-nothing unconstitutional in that; but chopping down the state's trees to make the slide is not right. Some 2,600 trees would have to be chopped down to clear the hill. Attorney-General Hamilton Ward, in sympathy with bobsledding, said he would take the case to the court of appeals...
...Because they knew that mild carbon monoxide poisoning simulates alcoholic intoxication two eminent Englishmen, John Scott Haldane, 69, honorary professor and director of Birmingham University Mining Research Laboratory, and Leonard Erskine Hill, 63, famed physiologist, recently saved a hapless Englishman from gaol. The fellow and two friends had drunk some beer before he took them for a ride in his closed motor car. The car bogged in a pool of water. Trying to pull out, he raced his motor for about 15 minutes, when he became drowsy. A constable came along to scold. He smelled the driver's sour...
...regular Dartmouth schedule, and was arranged directly by the Law School team. Seven players are to make the trip, including men from Holy Cross, Dartmouth. Butler University, and three from the University of Kansas, which ran up seven consecutive Missouri Valley Conference victories. B. S. Jeffrey H. J. J. Hill 21, F. M. Eckstein 1GB. H. M. Hauser H, and A. J. Brady H. will be in the starting lineup for the Law School...
...could do a 'service for 'Dry America,' " said Senator Fess. ¶ Involved explanations by Attorney-General Mitchell to the effect that since March one U. S. district attorney has been ousted, five forced to resign. Senator Borah thought this record "unimpressive." ¶ Muffled thunder over Capitol Hill of the storm of Prohibition debate, gathering during the holidays, about to break...
...campaigns on the power issue. Fortnight ago Congressman Bertrand Hollis Snell, House Rules Committee Chairman and most potent New Yorker in Congress, urged G. O. P. state leaders to modify their position on power, to compromise with the Democrats sufficiently to get the issue out of politics. William H. Hill, Hoover-appointed leader, echoed the Snell entreaty: "If Roosevelt will not accept the Republican offer of a compromise, give him what he wants but by all means get the question out of next year's campaign...