Word: mount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black the furniture, dark grey the windowless walls, shadowless the bleak illumination that comes through the skylights. Entrance to this aseptic, dustless, reflectionless hideaway is by a spiral staircase from an anteroom on the floor below. Only scientists particularly interested in fractioning life to its lowest common denominators may mount that spiral. And all must wash their hands and faces, put on gowns and hoods of black cloth-all except the master of this pure and dark domain, master of its purified and black-clad servants. He, the most famed member of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Alexis Carrel, distinguishes himself...
...included in the sale was Cardiff Castle, in which Lord Bute once entertained 10,000 guests and to which tourists pay one shilling entrance fee. Lord Bute, who with characteristic self-effacement went to War as Private Crichton-Stuart, also owns London and Edinburgh town houses, Kames Castle and Mount Stuart, Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute, the luxurious Moorish-style El Minzah Palace Hotel of Tangier, the Castle of Guadacorte, about ten miles north of Gibraltar in Rightist Spain...
...turkeys were thrown into panic by a huge bird which roared across the henyard only a few feet above the ground. Few minutes later, Mrs. Weiss heard a "terrible clattering sound." The bird, an $80,000 Lockheed 14, had perched violently on the crest of 3,000-ft. Mount Stroh, had carried nine to their deaths...
...decided to short-cut straight across the mountains and "fly contact''-in sight of ground-from Burbank to Daggett (in the Mojave Desert), instead of skirting the hills and staying on the airlines' beam. One bit of ground Pilot Willey did not see in time was Mount Stroh, in the Saugus Hills...
After a picnic lunch in the woods, the intrepid dared to beard the god in his den at Titan's Piazza on Mount Holyoke. Titan, unfortunately, was out, but Professor Mather Welcomed the Harvard boys to this high cliff under the impending columns of rock...