Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shelves of state liquor stores there has appeared a civilized but untamed 100-proof corn liquor respectably labeled"White Lightning -Clear as the Mountain Dew" and respectably distilled on order by a subsidiary of the Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. in Louisville. The North Carolina Board of Alcoholic Control had decided that it would stop trying to wean moonshine guzzlers, and would offer them a better product...
...thousands reveled in the gaiety of Calgary's annual stampede one night last week, three black hearses rolled across the city to a downtown funeral home. Past oblivious, whoopee-making crowds, the hearses bore the bodies of seven U.S. schoolboys, victims of the worst mountain-climbing accident in Canada's history...
Cecil Effinger. 40, a music professor at the University of Colorado, whose own compositions, including three symphonies, are well known in the Mountain. States, has been thinking about the $1,000 question since 1945. One day in Paris, he saw an unusual typewriter in a store window, and it got him speculating about a typewriter for music. After investigating and discarding other designs, Effinger came forth last week with a typewriter of 79 characters and a carriage that can be moved freely to produce the most complicated kind of notation. With a little practice, Effinger claims, typists will average about...
...been a less dedicated man, the abolitionist preacher called John Gregg Fee might have thought he had done enough for the illiterate mountain folk he had come to serve. On a desolate tract of land donated by Cassius Clay, he had established a whole new community at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains in Kentucky. He had dug the well, built the nonsectarian church, opened the one-room schoolhouse in 1855. But now, he wrote later in the American Missionary, "we need a college here . . . an antislavery, anti-caste, anti-rum, antitobacco, anti-sectarian, pious school under Christian influence...
Over the years, the college has produced its share of doctors, lawyers, businessmen and college presidents. But half of its graduates still go back to their mountain communities, and of these, many become teachers. Thus the message of Berea returns continually to the mountains. To a whole region it has brought learning where no learning was before, but perhaps even more important, it has also brought its motto: "God hath made of one blood all nations...