Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...useful tool to frighten farmers into soil conservation. For this reason, those of us who are crusading for conservation believe that your analysis of William Vogt's theories, while essentially sound and correct, will be a damaging blow. Farmers will now sleep late, plow up and down the hill. Most of them have to be frightened into action, and now our bogie man is dead by the hand of TIME...
Next morning, in a slatch in the storm, surf watchers on the tip of Cape Cod saw the Portland, among the snarled and yelping seas, just off the treacherous Peaked Hill Bar. The storm closed in, and the day wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful spew of trunks, mattresses, chairs, stateroom doors and barrels on the sands near Race Point. The bodies came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until...
...Thanksgiving night, four years ago, two Seattle undertakers, John F. Hennessy and Earl J. Cassedy, had a snack of cold turkey sandwiches with a friend on Queen Anne Hill, drove off toward home -and vanished completely. Last month, harbor patrolmen found them in Hennessy's automobile at the bottom of the Lake. Washington Ship Canal. One day last week, Gladys Hennessy, the undertaker's widow, was driving along an icy road with a woman friend and her five-year-old son Patrick (who was wearing a Saint Christopher medal taken from his father's body). The automobile...
...newly married couple left Honolulu last week for a year's honeymoon. Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. R. Hill, who are naturalists as well as newlyweds, were going to lonely Koror Island in the Palau Archipelago. There their main job will be to turn a Japanese weather station into the first of the Pacific War Memorial's chain of scientific centers. The Hills will also set up a tide gauge for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. (Incidentally, they will take care of a colony of wasps from Zanzibar which, it is hoped, will check a plague of coconut-eating...
Married. Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 47, author (The Battle Is the Payoff, Top Secret), founder and onetime editor of PM (now the N.Y. Star); and Mrs. Mary Hill Doolittle, 34, Pittsburgh socialite-cellist; he for the third time, she for the second; in Lakeville, Conn...