Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mountain High, Valley Low (Helen Merrill; Mercury). A vaguely Oriental-sounding ditty that exudes a melancholy charm and makes little attempt to make sense, e.g., "If you need me, I will be near by; mountain high, valley...
...inland Antarctica, but no one was sure until U.S. Navy airplanes recently explored the region between the South Pole and Wilkes Land. According to Dr. Paul A. Siple, just returned from Antarctica, the flying explorers found a great sloping trough 200 to 300 miles wide between a high mountain range west of the Ross Ice Shelf and a dome of ice. The trough leads south from the coast, and its high inland end may reach the South Pole (see map). During the Antarctic winter, says Dr. Siple, the high interior of Antarctica becomes extremely cold. Its heavy, cold air flows...
...shade of a chilly, barren mountain called India Muerto (Dead Indian), 9,000 feet up in the northern Chilean Andes, lies the world's newest major find of copper ore. The discovery, says Roy H. Glover, board chairman of Anaconda Co., "is the greatest and most important development in copper mining in Chile since the initiation in 1914 of Chuquicamata" -and famed Chuquicamata is the world's biggest copper ore body. Last week Chile's President Carlos Ibañez gave Anaconda* an official go-ahead to spend $53 million toward making Indio Muerto an active producer...
Arthur C. Twomey has a talkie machine which will show, among other wonders, "strange air plants, mountain tops bathed in mist, rare butterfly orchids and a view from the acropolis at Copan." Massachusetts Audubon Nature Series, New England Mutual Hall, today...
Within an hour of the court's ruling the Denver Post asked a district judge to permit photographic coverage of the trial of a man charged with robbery. That afternoon the Post front-paged a general shot of the courtroom, and the Rocky Mountain News next morning ran a picture of the defendant on the stand...