Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left before sunup the next morning. Though the moon was still shining brightly on the wings of airplanes on the field, and the mountain air was chill, a thousand people were on hand to bid him goodbye. As the Sacred Cow labored off the runways, Harry Truman was worrying a little. Mexico's President Aleman was to visit him next month, and he wondered if his busy fellow Norte-Americanos would take time to match the hospitality he had encountered south of the border...
...fractured personality -Germany's, perhaps-tinged with Lutheran, Faustian, Nietzschean and Freudian influences, and in general quite a mess. An earnest, introverted work, full of prescience (World War II is assumed throughout), it stands, as fiction, deep in the shadow of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain...
...long production saga of the elder Holabird includes a spectacular 1940 production of "the Ascent of F-6," by Auden and Isherwood, in which all the seats in Sanders pit were torn out to provide for the construction of a manmade mountain...
...Captain George Shedd, the schussmen will field a group which has raced together all season with increasing success. Rising from next-to-last places in the Dartmouth Carnival and intercollegiate Ski Union meets, the team finished fifth in the Appalachian Mountain Club Downhill contest last weekend...
...spite of balmy Cambridge weather, the skiers will continue to race well into April. Next week will see the Edson Memorial Trophy race at Franconia and the Schussverein Downhill at Bear Mountain; the following weekend, the team will revisit Bear Mountain for the Drifters Ski Club's downhill team races...