Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact is, Syracuse Journal published exclusively a half page picture aerial view of wrecked airplane, also a half page picture of rescue party going up the mountain, the day before the wirephoto started. . . . Journal flew a plane over this area, took photographs and hurried back to the office. The first wire picture was 24 hours late in this city...
...idea of $30 a month pensions was small change compared to their proposal of $200 a month. Said Senator Borah: "I am not satisfied to make an outlay of nearly $1,000.000,000 for armaments and $15 for old age." Said Senator Nye: "We are led to the mountain top by the generalized prospectus and rudely dropped by the detailed program...
...monks are used to being asked: "What is the purpose of your life?" They invariably reply: "What is the purpose of your life outside?" Few years ago Mount Athos had a visitor who did more than ask about purposes. A Dartmouth sociologist named Michael Choukas, he viewed the "holy mountain" as a medieval hangover, a laboratory for pure sociological research. He lived among the monks, studied their life, wrote a book. Black Angels of Athos, which was lately published...
...mountain's 20 monastic communities live some 5,000 monks. That they may not be led into temptation, not only are women banned but also beardless boys (under 18) and female animals whose matings might "furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which . . . are daily being purified." Spiritually preoccupied with an attainable Heaven, an avoidable Hell, the Athonites do not always succeed in resisting the prickings of the flesh. Investigator Choukas found overwhelming evidence for the stories he had heard about the perverted tastes of these black-bonneted men of God. Nor was he pleased to find that as regards...
...little-known fact about the holy mountain is that, besides housing many another Christian relic, its monasteries contain more pieces of the True Cross than any other single locality. The Cross has been calculated to have measured 178,000,000 cubic millimetres. Of 3,942,000 c. mm. extant, Mount Athos has pieces aggregating 878,360 c. mm., Rome...