Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above Lyons, city of silk and the finest cooking in the world, rises the whaleback of Fourviere Hill crowned by the flamboyant Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourviere. Citizens of Lyons who know call Fourviere "the moving mountain." It moved last week...
Houses crumpled like paper. Police and firemen rushed to the scene; 25 were snuffed out when a second landslide crashed down on them. By morning 60 deaths were recorded, near the bottom of the moving mountain was a hole goo ft. deep, 180 ft. wide, big enough to swallow a skyscraper...
Jumping into the political fray. Mountain-Straddler Albert showed his statesmen how to do it. After four days of intensive negotiations behind-scenes, the cabinet withdrew their resignation, steadied the Brussels and Antwerp stock exchanges, which had begun to slip...
Utah, under the guidance of Ike Armstrong, blanked Colorado 34 to 0. Thus Utah for the third consecutive time became Rocky Mountain Conference champion. Another Utah record: 21 consecutive games without defeat...
Experimental work was carried on in 1918 by the Bureau of Mines at Granite Mountain Shaft, Butte, Mont., where 13 years ago 162 men lost their lives in a fire because warning was not spread quickly enough. At first pleasant odors were used but were not successful. Workmen did not run when they .sniffed violets or roses. But when experimenters released butyl mercaptan which smells like garlic, miners dropped their tools at once, raced for the exit. The stench safety method has been adopted by the American Standards Association which suggests to mine operators how best to conserve their employes...