Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holding a meeting to discuss immediate ski plans, the ski squad recently decided to have it first outing Sunday on Uncanoonuc Mountain, near Manchester, New Hampshire. The men met at the Varsity Club and were addressed by Charles N. Proctor, former Olympic champion, who is to have charge of the coaching...
...peasants roared "Heil Hitler!" as coatless Adolf drove on to his snug mountain hideaway at nearby Obersälzburg...
Pleased with this simile, "Papa" Kalinin rambled on, drew deafening cheers with an announcement that when Russia's largest "chemical city" is shortly completed he will rename the place Stalinogorsk-this making the 15th Soviet city to be named after Stalin, not to mention mountain peaks and islands...
...After a New Hampshire snowfall of 20 in. and in a 60 m.p.h. gale the only way for Beatrice Coots, district nurse, to reach & aid in the confinement of Mrs. Milton Ames, on Ossipee Mountain, was by an eleven-dog sled which Mr. & Mrs. John Milton Seeley, owners of kennels at Wonalancet, N. H. organized and drove...
...away, clocked it over &; over, finally announced that light's speed was 186.284 mi. per sec., with a probable error of less than 2 mi. per sec. But while Dr. Michelson never doubted that light's speed was constant in vacua, the air even between lofty mountain peaks is no vacuum. In a valley near Pasadena he had built a mile-long tube of corrugated iron (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Powerful pumps sucked out all but a few stray molecules of air. The U. S. Coast &; Geodetic Survey measured the tube to within .063 of an inch. Then...