Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three members of the College Mountain Club will spend ten weeks this summer in Alaska among the peaks of the St. Elias range to test out special cold-weather equipment, Club officials announced last night...
...time of Ching Ming, the Pure Brightness Festival. Throughout the land the Chinese people, obeying ancient precepts, dutifully swept and tidied the graves of their ancestors. At the foot of a pine-dotted mountain in remote Chungpu, Shensi province, such a grave was swept. This was the tradition-hallowed tomb of the greatest ancestor of all, Huang Ti (Yellow Emperor), legendary Father of the Chinese race...
...Ontario and Quebec, to meet truck and ship competition, rates are below the legal maximum. They are higher on the noncompetitive prairies, higher still over the Rockies because of a "mountain differential." The Maritimes get a 20% reduction...
...sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles-was Randolph McCoy's cabin. The land between was battleground...
...There are differences between the Chinese and Western attitudes toward mountains. . . . Chinese poets are inspired by mountains to write poems. . . . Mountains in China also serve as inspiration for suggestive landscape paintings. The artist does not necessarily have to visit the mountain. He can lie on his back and dream. . . . Now we have Mr. Reynolds, holding an atomic pen in his hand. . . . He knows the value of using mountains to publicize his name and his pen, while the Chinese know only about burying themselves after death in mountains which are famous...