Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Half way there he and his regiment changed to an armored train sent up from Shantung Province by his fellow war lord Governor Han Fu-chu of Shantung whom he appears to trust. Under Han's protection Feng lived during the summer of 1932 on Taishan, the Sacred Mountain near Confucius' birthplace in Shantung, and proceeded to return there last week "as the climate is good for my asthma." Chinese expected Feng's "asthma"-a standing joke-to last until he sees a fresh chance to rush forth on another profitable military escapade. During his previous retirement...
Thundering like a mountain on the move, the wall of water surged through Parker, tumbled down Cherry Creek toward suburban Denver. Logs, tree-trunks, tons of debris were swept along as the billion-gallon deluge widened out to more than a mile. Cherry Creek was a battering-ram of water, boiling over its embankments. At 7 o'clock it burst into Denver, ripped out six bridges in swift succession. Just ahead of it were police cars and fire engines, sirens a-scream, racing the residents to safety. A stampede of 5,000, many clad in night clothes, fled from...
...houses of Central City hang on the gulch walls like loose bark. Oldtime shops, dance halls, faro games, were going full blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second annual Central City Play Festival, blowing on the cold ashes of the oldtime mining boom town. In the centre of Central City (year-round population: 300) is the massive stone Opera House where once Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson and Rose Coghlan played to rowdy...
Storm clouds scudded low against a livid sky. In the grayness of a November twilight, a long road of sun-bleached pebbles stretched startlingly white across the barren mountain top toward a desolated ledge. The dwarfed branches of scrub oaks rattled against each other in the cold wind, but the two figures progressing toward the ledge had no heed for the night or the wind...
...where in three months time Steel breathed $97,000,000 worth of the pure air of profit. Never since has Steel reached any such altitude but the flood of 1929 boosted it to a lesser peak, a Mount Sinai of nearly $55,000,000. The far side of that mountain fell away, steeply, right down to the Red Sea. In two years Steel got to sea level, in three years to the bottom of the sea- $16,000,000 deep by the first quarter...