Word: montes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...13th Century, St. Thomas Aquinas erected a towering Gothic cathedral of thought with vaulting arches of metaphysics, flying buttresses of Aristotelian science, stained windows of Revelation. In his great study of medieval France, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams sympathetically noted the judgment of Pope Leo XIII: "On the wings of St. Thomas's genius, human reason has reached the most sublime height it can probably ever attain...
Halifax, on Nova Scotia's southeast coast, was the departure point for convoys in World War I, was leveled on the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, when the French freighter Mont Blanc, loaded with T.N.T., blew up after a collision with the Belgian relief ship Imo. Today Halifax's fine harbor is Britian's convoy point once again, reputedly has been made into a good naval base as well. From its seaplane and land air bases, Canuck pilots fly out to sea on convoy escort and submarine patrol. Nova Scotia is heavily wooded, is connected with...
High-grade manganese is all abroad, but the greatest supply of low-grade manganese in the world is near Butte, Mont. In World War I, U. S. producers went to work on their submarginal deposits, by 1918 were turning out 35% of U. S. needs. After the Armistice the cheaper product of foreign mines drove down U. S. production to the vanishing point. Last week from big Anaconda Copper came word that U. S. manganese would go to market again. Awarded to Anaconda by the new Government-owned Metal Reserve Co. was a contract for 240,000 tons of manganese...
Married. Else Marie Hall, 20, daughter of famed Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad; and Accountant Arthur Dusenbury, son of a wealthy ranch owner; in Bozeman, Mont. Else had once thought of becoming a singer, changed her mind because "I am afraid I could never sing as well as Mother...
George H. Emernson scholarships to George C. Kennedy '40, of Monida, Mont.; and Frederick C. Novello 2G, of Somerville, Mass...