Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...source of Lolo one must study the history of the Indo-Aryan race who moved from Central Asia into Indo-Gangetic plain and then spread abroad. From the famous Indian Epic Mahabharata we know definitely that a large group of people did flee from Hird to the surrounding mountain countries. Further discovery of history is urgently necessary for scholars of atomic...
...samba & rumba expert, heads the Department of Public Information, which distributes painfully impartial U.N. news to the world. Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev, a Soviet expert on international law and one of Russia's less prickly emissaries, heads the Department of Security Council Affairs. The others: Economics-David Kemp Owen, mountain-climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former professor of physiology at the Sorbonne; Legal Affairs -Ivan Kerno, Czech jurist...
...falling 2,000 feet through a cloud might produce several tons of snow. Snowmaking will not cure droughts over large areas. It cannot conjure moisture out of an atmosphere which contains too little to precipitate. But possibly farmers in irrigated districts may coax more snow to fall on the mountain areas which feed their ditches...
...Newfoundland mountain range, rhymes with can he hopscotch...
...muscles of his "bronzed back writhed like snakes," he heaved the cannon overboard. It landed spang in the British boat below. The boat split wide open; King George's minions gasped and gurgled. "Great God o' the Mountain," cried Holdfast, "what a glorious fight!" "Ugh!" grunted one of Holdfast's Mohegan warriors, proudly eyeing the mighty torso of his chief...