Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murder is not a capital crime in Lower California, but General Contreras took no chances in waiting for a trial. All the next night a court martial sat. At sunrise the prisoner. Private Juan Castillo Morales, 24, was hustled to the cemetery on a nearby hill, told to run for his life. A firing squad of his fellow soldiers finished him quickly...
...broke the hill record by 19 ft. and clinched the championship with a total of 229.8 points (based on best distance and form in two jumps). Six out of the first ten placed were Ruud's countrymen...
...Utah, stretches a chain of 80-odd monuments, testimony of the rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the East, and its long trek westward a century ago in search of religious and economic freedom. A notable marker is the one on the hill east of Salt Lake City where Brigham Young first gazed over the Salt Lake Valley, exclaimed: 'This is the place!" This small stone, it was announced last week, is to be replaced next year by a monument more fitting to the great occasion. A committee of the Utah Legislature...
...hill a couple of miles beyond the suburbs of Chillicothe, Ohio (pop. 18,340) is a 63-acre farm with a hundred-year-old stone house, Oak Hill. Its inhabitants are 34-year-old Charles Allen Smart and his wife. They call themselves plain farmers...
Such, in R. F. D., are some of the unusual details of farming as practiced by Farmer Smart, a Harvard graduate, onetime editor, schoolteacher, Paris expatriate, and author of two novels, who three years ago inherited Oak Hill and several thousand dollars in cash. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a likely candidate for the best-seller list, R. F. D. is also one of the most enthusiastic documentations yet to appear on that rare phenomenon, an intellectual who intends to farm his "farm...