Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter . . . [dated] March 29, 1917: "You ask for some anecdote about my career. Here is the career as it seems to me! I was born and now am here with a mountain of work demanding my attention night and day. Very truly yours...
...Washington's National Airport, a picked escort of 50 white-gloved soldiers snapped to attention. Down a long steel ramp came the flag-draped coffins of five U.S. airmen, past an honor guard at present arms. Five hearses were waiting. From a common burial ground in the mountain village of Koprivnik, the U.S. flyers shot down over Tito's Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 2) had come back to the U.S. They were taken to a chapel at Arlington Cemetery to await final funeral services later this month...
...scientific celebrity and adventurer, he finds zest in teaching, mountain climbing, fishing and in trying a new flavor of ice cream, no less than in exploring the complicated structure of chlorophyll and in helping develop nuclear fission. He has the great capacity for growth that is the essence of the educated man. And his own breadth of intellectual interest is the essence of 310-year-old Harvard, whose motto is the single Latin word Veritas (Truth...
...Tuesday's activities meeting, the Freshman class will hear representatives of most of the many undergraduate organizations, from mountain climbing to stamp collecting, outline the aims and purposes of their organizations and explain how new comers may join. The speakers will be introduced by Ray A. Goldberg '48, who emphasized the importance of this meeting to new students wishing to leaven their first year's work with outside activities. PBH punch will also be served at this meeting...
Last year, a group of nature-loving scientists at New York's American Museum of Natural History decided to find out how DDT could be used against harmful insects without hurting innocent wildlife. As a test area they chose five square miles of Bear Mountain Park, a popular resort infested with pestiferous, germ-spreading flies...