Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notice on p. 17 of the issue of TIME of March 28 a footnote indicating that Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was mountain tramping in New York State when word came to him that President McKinley was dying in Buffalo...
...first time a U. S. Secretary of State called on the Secretary General of the League of Nations last week, but this historic coming of the Mountain to Mohammed was shrouded in a fog of qualifications and quibbles...
...Sourland Mountain (Cont...
...upper fastnesses of Minnesota, amid a stubby growth of pine and spruce there lies Itasca Lake. Here rises the Mississippi. In the early spring of 1541 canoes floated down the sluggish current of this river that drains the mountain ranges of the United States, and a Spaniard discovered the Father of the Waters. But fever hangs in the mists of the low country and on one black night DeSoto's body was lowered away into the quiet water...
...talk of us 'The west is dangerous for thoughtful men: 'Eastward is all sure: all as it ought to be: 'A man may know the will of God by the fences. . . .' Shamed, his men swashbuckle down to their jobs, fight their way over the mountain passes to the valley where the fabulous island-city of Montezuma "lay on the lake like sleeping gulls." Here they lead an idyllic life, described by Poet MacLeish in beautiful detail. But their attempt to make their security more secure, by holding Montezuma hostage, leads to their ruin. When Cortes goes...