Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wisconsin) which originated on the Labrador Peninsula and pushed southward, did not cross the outer Gulf of St. Lawrence, the glacial ice having there, as elsewhere, a natural dislike for deep salt water. Nevertheless, in many parts of Newfoundland, Wisconsin-time saw small local sheets of ice on some mountain-slopes and on some of the open plains; and these local Wisconsin sheets did as effective work in Newfoundland as in New England...
...party, including Mr. Bayard Long of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, and my former student. John M. Fogg, Jr., Ph.D. '29, brought back more than 250 such species, many of them hitherto quite unknown any-where in the world. These plants were excessively localized, growing as small colonies on mountain tablelands or crests or at lower levels on cliffs and gravelly barrens...
...birds were collected mostly by shooting and by use of ingenious native traps set in the forest at night. The skins were all prepared in the field and many of them transported over a thousand miles down rivers, along mountain trails, in the rainy season, before they could be shipped home. They arrived in perfect condition...
When he and Calvin Coolidge dedicated his Mountain Lake (Fla.) Sanctuary last year, Edward William-Bok said of its transplanted greenery and bell tower: "Every traveled visitor who sees it now, in its completed state, is immediately reminded of the Taj Mahal, in India and unhesitatingly ranks it with that world-renowned tomb...
...realized the full import of that comparison, for none save Mr. Bok's family and the builders knew that at the Tower's base lay the donor's crypt. Last week Calvin Coolidge went back to Mountain Lake and saw Donor Bok interred...