Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the Mountain. After that first, promising nighttime test, Keyes and his associates decided to try their diode light at longer range. They set up shop on the top of Mount Wachusett, a modest peak (alt. 2,006 ft.) 34 miles from Lincoln Lab. The first long-distance experiments were not successful, mostly because of hastily assembled equipment. After many months of work, an improved transmitter pointed at Lincoln Laboratory from Mount Wachusett. The tiny gallium arsenide diode, only 0.01 in. in diameter, was placed precisely at the focus of a 5-in. reflecting telescope that concentrated its infra...
...paper" company set up to run the mine without union restrictions. Because of greater injustices and higher unemployment, the picketing was more violent and tempers are quicker than in Floyd country. And the publicity given the town has brought in outsiders who are always distrusted by the mountain people of Kentucky...
...last the lake burst upon us, a noble sheet of blue water . . . walled in by a rim of snow-clad mountain peaks that towered aloft full 3,000 feet higher still. As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords...
...considering the freeway in relation to the landscape, the questions are: "Does it flow along the river smoothly, hug the slope naturally, climb the hill in a convincing way? Does it grasp the mountain firmly, jump the valley decisively? Or does it, on the contrary, climb a ridge needlessly, descend into a valley thoughtlessly, violate a lake brutally, cut up the landscape violently? Or is it simply trite...
...There is not a single Audimeter in the entire Rocky Mountain time zone (pop. approximately 7,000,000, including Denver, Albuquerque, and Salt Lake City). Nielsen argued that it did not matter, since Rocky Mountain opinions would not be different enough to make a significant change in the ratings...