Word: mountainize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With an operation scar healed, with his cheeks pink from the mountain air of Virginia Hot Springs, Myron Timothy Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, last week called on Secretary of State Kellogg in Washington and said he would return to his post Jan. 14. He has been absent since June...
...error in the original stellar calculations was detected yesterday morning when a mountain observatory in Oregon sighted the speeding sphere under conditions of visibility more favorable than those to be found in Cambridge...
...case system for years, and has found it an excellent way of stimulating independent thought. A few years ago, prospective business men went to law school in order to obtain training in scientific methods of research and unshackled thinking--prime requisites in any field of endeavor. Now the mountain has come to Mahomet, and the Harvard Business School uses the case method, with the three-fold purpose of exciting critical analysis, encouraging the use of scientific methods, and giving training in business procedure...
...Palmer was harking back to 1914, when the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. properties were the scene of bloodshed. Mr. Rockefeller has no interest in the Columbine property (Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.). Nevertheless, Wobbly Palmer's cry echoed in far Manhattan, where Communists appeared with accusing placards* to picket the Standard Oil Building at No. 26 Broadway. Clerks, steel workers from a new skyscraper, pugnacious office boys fell upon and manhandled the demonstrators...
...city grows up around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful as the mountains of the moon. On the way he stops to pick up a hoydenish little mountain girl. With her he descends upon the city of the miracle, capturing it, in the Fairbanks manner, unassisted. Treachery and leprosy combine to despoil him of his victory. But on his side there are the mountain...