Word: mountaineering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer of 1925 and describe their experiences in an essay. The winning articles are now being published, the first one written by a woman student of Antioch College who worked in three different factories successively ladling jam into bottles, slipping candy into little frilled cups, and finally behind a mountain of books in a bindery examining each volume for imperfections. The essay amply justifies The Nation's experiment and the theory upon which it is based...
...studios loosed their thunder. Meetings were planned, resolutions framed. August Lukeman, sculptor of the Stone Mountain Memorial to the Confederacy, was first to be heard...
...Palestinian Room of the Museum may be seen such objects as blocks of rock salt from the mountain at the southern end of the Dead Sea, the region of the story of Lot's wife; specimens of fine, bright-colored stone, such as Solomon may have used in building the Temple; models giving reproductions of the Tabennacle, of the Temple of Solemon, and of the Temple of Herod; tiles from the Tenth Roman Legion stationed at Jerusalem in the first century; hand mills, such as were used by the women of old and are used by the women...
...forest humped their ebon forms to shelter. Frenzied Hindus swarmed into the holy River Ganges to propitiate the demon that they could see obliterating the light of day. Borneans smashed their household crockery, gave up business and travel, tore their hair, gnashed their teeth, beat their hairy chests. Mountain-dwelling Filipinos donned armor, pounded gongs and descended toward the sea to combat what they believed was a race of planet-devouring crocodiles. But other humans behaved quite otherwise. From the opposite side of the earth they had thronged to put themselves in the shadow's path -astronomers from Holland...
Engaged. Miss Mary Isabel Garland, daughter of Novelist Hamlin Garland (The Long Trail, Money Magic, Her Mountain Lover, Wayside Courtships), player for a year in minor roles with Walter Hampden; to Hardesty Johnson, tenor...