Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week thousands of dead cattle lay in tumbled rows on the arctic barrens of the great plains; thousands of dead sheep were buried on the plateaus and in the snow-choked valleys of the Rocky Mountain states. Whole herds and flocks of weak and starving animals had been without food for weeks...
...Chiang said quick goodbyes to Vice President Li, Cabinet Minister Chang Chun and several others who had anticipated his moves correctly. Then he climbed aboard the plane and pulled the door shut himself. The Mei-Ling thundered down its runway at 4:15, climbed and circled Purple Mountain where the white stone of Sun Yat-sen's vast mausoleum reflected the last rays of the setting...
...made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at Germany's internationally famed school of functional architecture and abstract art, the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius. When Hitler clamped down on the Bauhaus, Albers lit out for the U.S. and progressive Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where he is today. A granitic perfectionist, he starts beginning students off by teaching them to draw straight lines and freehand letters...
...chair lift at Mad River Glen in Waitsfield, Vermont, started operations for the first time, and time honored centers like Manchester, Vermont; Thorne Mountain in Jackson, New Hampshire; and North Conway, New Hampshire, reported "good" skiing with most tows and lifts in operation...
...following number of scholarships are awarded in each region of the country: five scholarships in the far western area; five for the mid-Atlantic region; fifteen for the midwestern area; five for the mountain states; five for New England; five for the Pacific area; ten for the south; and five for the southwestern area...