Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain regions of Greece, where old traditions die hard, a girl without a dowry has about as much chance of getting a husband as a girl without a nose. The birth of a boy to a poor family is celebrated in the tavern; baby girls are greeted with laments...
...that are sources of powerful Yadio waves but which seldom correspond with any object visible to optical telescopes. A clue to what these mysterious "stars" may be was given by the discovery about two years ago that the second strongest of them shows in the Palomar Mountain 200-inch optical telescope as a pair of galaxies, apparently in collision, hundreds of millions of light-years away. The new telescope men will attempt to show that fainter radio stars are also colliding galaxies. Since the radio waves created in some unknown way by such collisions penetrate much farther than light, they...
...weight off the floor. His name itself (approximate pronunciation: Kor-chak Jule-fcttjf-ski) is so big a mouthful that even old friends avoid using it so they won't mispronounce it. But the biggest thing about Ziolkowski is his ambition. It is to carve the most mountainous piece of man-made sculpture in recorded history. He is working on a piece of material that is to the measure of his ambition: a mountain...
...Hartford. Conn., went to the Black Hills of South Dakota to build his monument as a symbol of the down trodden of the earth. But the late terrible-tempered Harold Ickes, then Secretary of the Interior, snapped at him: "I won't permit you to carve up my mountains." That was not enough to stop Ziolkowski: he bought a mountain...
...forbidding Ahaggar mountains in the central Sahara, prospectors have found samples of gold, platinum, nickel, tin, chromium, asbestos, tungsten, uranium, copper, and one small diamond. But the area is separated from the nearest port by 1,400 miles of sand-swept desert trails. Admitted the French government's mining boss in Algeria, Turquet de Beauregard: "Even if we discovered a mountain of pure iron down there, it would not pay to ship it. So we have to look for very precious ores, such as platinum and uranium, which would be worth sending by plane...