Word: mountainize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
Italy-Dalmatia. Not only were Naples and Sicily snowmantled, not only did Vesuvius and Mount Etna spurt red ashes into a white storm; but the cold grew so intense in Dalmatia-across the Adriatic Sea from Italy-that the surface of a minor mountain range contracted, causing severe landslides near Spalato...
...novelty for the American college to make such definite adjustment to the secondary school's preparation, but Mohammed had shown no signs of coming to the mountain, and the mountain must needs move. In examinations for college the I. Q. and the scholastic aptitude test have their place, but none of these tell whether the freshman possesses a knowledge of note taking and a scholarly disclaim of the historical anecdote. The plan of the University of Buffalo at least prepares the unequipped before their hour is at hand...
...Founded by St. Bernard of Menthon (11th Century), who for 40 years preached Christianity to Swiss mountain dwellers...
...Wolfgang Schlumph founded it in 1878. Arkansas at that time was a wild district of Indians and white outlaws. The Army garrison at Fort Smith was a necessity. But Father Schlumph with his blackrobed Benedictines feared no one. His troupe worked their way through the Ozarks and at a mountain spot 50 miles from Fort Smith they made a clearing, sawed and chopped blocks of limestone from the mountain walls and built themselves a home. They called the place Subiaco, after Subiaco in Italy where St. Benedict himself had founded a monastery in the 6th Century. That first structure, fire...