Word: mound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realm of conjecture." Meanwhile the joint Congressional committee of investigation went to Akron to begin hearings. Sunnyvale, Forty miles south of San Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre. The gold is a carpet of California poppies. The silver is the shimmering aluminum paint of an airship dock, second in size only to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron. The whole is Sunnyvale, newly completed Naval airship base for the Pacific Coast. Last week Sunnyvale...
...cremation. But not his white plume, not his badge of honor. To his death bed came his son and reverently clipped the mustaches away. They were bound with white silk, laid on a satin cushion in a separate casket and buried with all honor in a separate burial mound...
Both aggregations exhibited an uncanny inability to utilize the chances they had to score. Hunt, who started for the visitors on the mound, was replaced by Slader in the second inning...
...mound on Ards Peninsula, Ireland, said to contain a Viking ship burial, a large "crannog," or lake-dwelling, bronze-age cairns in Galway county, and an iron-age village way county, and an iron-age village in Wicklow county will be excavated by Hencken and his associates. A sociological study of county Clare will be carried on under the management of W. L. Warner, assistant professor of Social Anthropology...
...clean-up position. Frank Gleason 1b., will bat fifth followed by Jim McCaffrey l.f., who shared batting honors with Adams against Columbia, Phil Hines 2b., and Charles Sargent s.s. Coach Fred Mitchell has not yet made the choice between Harold Taylor and John McJennett to take the mound. Taylor, a lanky right hander pitched the two games against Brown last year in which the Crimson broke even, winning the first game 5-2, and dropping the second...