Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clara Grant Ray whom he married in 1915; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty, desertion, nonsupport. Died. John Coogan, father of retired Child Actor Jackie Coogan, 21; Junior Durkin, 19, actor (Huckleberry Finn, Little Men); and two others; when an automobile driven by the elder Coogan plunged down a mountain embankment; near San Diego, Calif. Son Coogan, only survivor of the accident, was injured. Died. Bronson Cutting, 46, U. S. Senator from New Mexico; in an airplane crash near Macon, Mo. (see p. 49). Member of a Manhattan socialite family, he inherited a fortune estimated at between...
Following a trip to Joe-English Mountain in New Hampshire later this month, the members of the Club will make the final ascent of the season when they climb the precipitous face of Mt. Cannon...
...wise in recognizing the importance of these far-flung laboratories in getting to the bottom of modern scientific problems, since books are so hopelessly inadequate in the more intricate investigation. Circling the world today, from the jungles of Slam, where Dr. Andrews is making his ethnological observations, to the mountain fastnesses of the Chilean Andes, where altitude studies are being made by Dr. Keyes and the Fatigue Laboratory, Harvard is everywhere the patron of scientific research. With anthropological and archeological studies increasing in importance every year, Harvard has adopted the commendable policy of supplying its individual departments with ample funds...
...temple, situated as it was in a barren mountain region far from any town, was built and maintained by the ancient Egyptians solely in connection with the turquoise mines at that point from approximately 3000 B. C. to 1500 B. C. The mines were exploited by the Egyptians from the twelfth to the eighteenth dynastics, and probably were also worked intermittently by the local tribes...
...owes much to G. M. Hopkins--consider the opening lines of "The Magnetic Mountain...