Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with General Electric, the House of Mitsubishi's with Westinghouse. Nearly 11,500,000 Japanese homes are wired, each having an average of about three bulbs. All big cities have electric street cars and large sections of the railways, particularly the suburban lines around Tokyo and on steep mountain gradients, are electrified...
...seaway along the St. Lawrence River connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic (TIME, July 25). Last week Senator Borah and his Foreign Relations colleagues sat down to hear what was wrong with this pact. In five days, opponents of its ratification piled up such a mountain of objections that even its friends admitted it had little chance to get through the coming short session...
...English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela she was forced down by low oil pressure into a "sea of mud." With improvised tools she made repairs, flew on, thought to powder her nose while crossing Table Mountain at Cape Town. Mrs. Mollison did not do what her husband did at the end of his record flight: crack up in landing...
...teams were lucky to grind out two touchdowns at Cleveland, 12-to-0. Pitt found Carnegie Tech a touchdown harder than Notre Dame, a touchdown easier than Nebraska, 6-to-0 in a sooty Pittsburgh snowstorm. Coach Ike Armstrong's Utah team, which has not lost a Rocky Mountain Conference game since the one the Colorado Aggies won, 12 to 0, in 1927, played the Colorado Aggies again last week, clinched its fifth Conference Championship in a row, 16 to 0. In three New York mud-puddles. Fordham nosed out Oregon State on a safety, 8-to-6, Columbia...
...Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News in Denver enjoyed a field day last week at the expense of its arch-enemy Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils of the Denver Post. It seized the opportunity to spread upon its pages with impunity the following allegations about swaggering Publisher Bonfils...