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...site for a solar observatory must be high, dry and dustless. Best place found on earth is Mt. Montezuma, Chile. Excellent is Table Mountain, Calif. The Smithsonian's Washington station where Dr. Abbot works is hazy, merely geographically convenient. Until last year the Institution maintained an observatory on Mt. Brukkaros in southwest Africa. Dusty desert winds made that place untenable...
...Eastward is all sure: all as it ought to be: 'A man may know the will of God by the fences. . . .' Shamed, his men swashbuckle down to their jobs, fight their way over the mountain passes to the valley where the fabulous island-city of Montezuma "lay on the lake like sleeping gulls." Here they lead an idyllic life, described by Poet MacLeish in beautiful detail. But their attempt to make their security more secure, by holding Montezuma hostage, leads to their ruin. When Cortes goes back to Cempoala, to fight off some Spaniards sent after...
...Balmoral, her Scotch estate. Great Victoria liked to surround herself with just such big weatherbeaten Scotsmen as Captain Robert Gilmore ("Jock") Latta of the Empress of Britain. Twenty-seven years ago, "Jock" Latta joined the Canadian Pacific fleet as fourth officer of the S. S. Montezuma, 8,360 tons, 480 ft. long, speed 9 ¾ knots. His twelfth and biggest command is the Empress of Britain, 42,500 tons, 758 ft. long, speed 25.3 knots. On her maiden voyage to Quebec she broke the Britain-to-Canada record, crossing in 5 days, 5 hr., 40 min. With other ships...
From the halls of Montezuma...
...subject: I eagerly await letters from various Marines, saying that they have heard parodies on "The Halls of Montezuma." I have never been a Marine, nor have I ever heard the song referred to, either with or without parodies. But TIME is usually right, and I doubt not that there are many versions...