Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve-hour day, riding with the President, pushing through crowds with him, Bell saw familiar scenes. When the blue peaks of the mountain province came into view, he turned to Magsaysay and said: "Legally, those mountains belong to you, but I'll always have extralegal claim to them because my mother is buried there...
...limit so drastically all courses dealing wtih geography. "Even Yale is building up its geography department," he notes.Knobby Sandstone, Etc. The map on the left is a small segment from Raisz's landform map of North Africa. Raisz uses special symbols for each type of land configuration, such as mountain, dendritic sandstream, dissected plateau, wind-etched limestone, knobby sandstone, lava, etc. Raisz thinks highly of this map. He tried to sell a copy of it to a student in History I62 (Westward Movement) who kept insisting he only wanted a map of the Pacific Northwest. Raisz found this hard...
...miles up and down and across the U.S. To help him get his pictures, railroaders everywhere set up special timetables for their prized new rolling stock. Union Pacific blocked its main line 30 minutes at Green River, Wyo., while Vandivert photographed three different types of power plants used in mountain hauling. Southern Pacific trainmen, not to be outdone, tape-measured the 4,745-11. length of an 87-car piggyback freight train, laid out the same distance along California's San Luis Obispo horseshoe curve and carefully spotted the train for Vandivert's dramatic storytelling picture of piggyback...
...earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies. But Ungit's priests bully the king into offering up Psyche as a human sacrifice to redeem the kingdom from an ill fate. The heartbroken Orual makes a pilgrimage to recover her sister's bones from the mountain site of the sacrifice, and to her amazement finds Psyche luminously alive. Through Psyche's newly gained mystical vision, Orual is given a glimpse of paradise, but rejects it as an insane mirage. By her lack of unquestioning faith, Orual condemns herself and Psyche to long years of purgatorial...
...Hampshire--Intervale, poor to fair, Twister Trail fair; Jackson, Black Mountain, poor to fair Valley, poor to fair...