Word: mountainize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rhine poured in its roaring torrent of muddy water. Higher and higher rose the Rhine, greater and greater became the pressure of the angry, swollen current and, finally, the huge 5,000-foot dam between Switzerland and the tiny principality of Liechtenstein burst and the water shot down the mountain side like 10,000 enraged tigers pouncing on their prey...
...Uninvited Guest. Every now and then a mountain play just has to come in to relieve some playwright's mind of the discovery that simple folk suffer strenuously. This is one about a young wife, an ancient crabbed husband, a philandering preacher. The arrival of a baby not the husband's proves troublesome...
...Baffin Island's unexplored west coast yielded to an expedition under direction of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, evidence of a great new mountain range that may yet cause the map of North America to be changed. Traces of a pre-Eskimo civilization (called by the explorers Tunic) pointed to a lost race...
...expedition crossed the Himalayas Mountains, traversing several passes, which have never been attempted before by white men. After collecting many speciments of bear, deer, mountain sheep and birds in the Tian Shian range, Mr. Cherrie returned through the Caucasus Mountains to Constantinople...
After traversing the Chinese Turkestan, the party arrived at the Tian Shian Mountains. Here a remarkable collection of bear, deer, mountain sheep, and birds, was obtained...