Word: montezuma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the halls of Montezuma...
...biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with their corps anthem, "From the Halls of Montezuma," a song of many unprintable versions...
...measure the sun's heat every day. That was to enable a Dr. Abbot (Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and director of its astrophysical observatory) to compare the sun's heat at Mount Brukkaros with its heat at Table Mountain, Cal., and at Montezuma, Chile, where the Institution has other solar stations. Last week Dr. Abbot informed Betty Jean's father that he would go to comparatively cool Washington and work in his astrophysical laboratory. Mr. Greeley could go to Table Mountain. On the way to relieve them from their servitude to Science were...
...elementary schools or the six-year High School are taught in terms of business. Teacher gives them a lesson which is considered a "contract." By learning their lessons, the children fulfill their contracts, achieve a sense of responsibility, advance toward their looming citizenship with proper civic consciousness. In the Montezuma Mountain School for Boys, Los Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor, a police commissioner, a labor commissioner. Violators of community regulations are turned over by the police to the labor commissioner who makes them work. Thus, since Montezuma...
Recent Policy. Phelps Dodge owns the Copper Queen mines near Bisbee and other mines at Morenci, both in Arizona; a slightly developed property at Burro Mountain at Tyrone, N. Mex.; the Montezuma Copper Co. of Sonora; smelters at Douglas, Ariz. About a year ago Phelps Dodge joined with other copper companies including Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. (another Bisbee producer) to buy a substantial interest in Nichols Copper Co., which owns a copper refinery on Long Island. Nichols Co. is to build a refinery at El Paso especially to handle their product...