Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Besides, I don't like that dust that blows down off the mountains. Some people may think the mountains are beautiful, but once you have seen a mountain out there you've seen 'em all, and that's too many. Why, there's mountains out there that grass doesn't even grow on. Anybody who calls that beauty is nuts. We went West to find out for ourselves which was the best place. We soon found out. Nova Scotia is best...
...luxuriant, seaside Santa Barbara. For $30 a week board and up to $250 for eight weeks' tuition, 50 "advanced and specially gifted musicians" will be provided with extracurricula not offered by the East's famed but city-bound Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis: a private beach and mountain scenery, as well as a list of celebrated teachers, advisers and sponsors as long as an unwound French horn...
...prizes. Contest rules called for a dish "distinctive to Alberta" which could be served by restaurants for not more than $1. Six thousand plain and fancy recipes (including one from a wag who suggested "grilled gophers fried in Turner Valley oil with Alberta gas over a mountain range") swamped contest headquarters. Last week in Edmonton, the judges selected a plain-sounding winner...
France--775 bombers, 300 fighters, 200 reconnaissance planes--total 1275 planes; 16 divisions (3 armored, 3 airborne, 10 motorized or mountain); 3 battleships, 6 carriers, 9 cruisers, 18 to 24 destroyers, 30 escort vessels, 30 minesweepers, 12 submarines...
Little, red-haired Emily retired in 1934. On Denver's standard $50-a-month teacher's pension-all that Emily would accept -she settled down in a pine-slab mountain cabin at Pinecliffe, 35 miles northwest of town, with her invalid sister, Florence...