Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fearful of the Scripps-Howard threat to his monopoly* of Rocky Mountain attention, Publisher Bonfils of Denver had taken, with a presidential speech, liberties which predicated not merely immorality but mania...
...seven years, burying his instruments at sea, flying them high into the sky with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...
...many cat-called and hooted. Arguments raged for blocks around as the noise-beaten crowd dispersed through the whispering city. Critics. In Europe, Composer Antheil was most thoughtfully pondered. The critics of the Manhattan newspapers derided, ignored. Said Critic Chotzinoff of the New York World: "This is making a mountain out of an antheil" (referring to the indubitably distinguished audience). Said a more facetious one: "Carnegie Hall was sold out two ways." Critic Olga Samaroff of the Post compared the symphony to a gargantuan bull-fiddle that a medieval potentate had created-an instrument requiring a team of asses...
Died. Marquis de Viana, Spanish Court Chamberlain, onetime Grand Master of the Horse; in Madrid. Last September he and King Alfonso dashed 300 miles by night in a motor over muddy country roads and dangerous mountain passes, to calm a threatened rebellion in Madrid, where twelve regiments of artillery had mutinied (TIME, Sept...
...five to avoid conflicting exhibitions between leagues, to hold traveling expenses (borne by the owners) to a minimum. Games are played under a rigid, comprehensive set of rules and regulations, enforced by three (often four) militant umpires, responsible: 1) to their league presidents, 2) to onetime Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, $65,000-a-year high commissioner of the entire operation...