Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guess for the best view from any TIME office anywhere you'd have to go to Rio de Janeiro: in their window-gazing moments our correspondentsthere can look across Rio Harbor to Sugar Loaf Mountain. Drawback: to get into the office at night, you'd have to go through a neighboring apartment building, rise in a rickety service elevator, grope your way down some very dark corridors...
...spirits of the laborers higher than the howls of timber wolves in the forests. Lurching between the roaring shacks they showed off their tricks of close-in fighting, western-and highly personal-marksmanship; their excitingly various ways of love-making . . . violent . . . dangerous. Timber-cutters charged down from their mountain camps and raided the effete shovel heavers like Apaches. The shovel-heavers raided back and returned with blood on the ends of their picks...
...evidence, he cites the fact that mountain-building (presumably caused by heat) has increased: "During the cycle which now appears to be near its close the earth appears to have been more vigorous in its behavior than at any time during the last 800 or 900 million years...
Haldane thinks that man may expect "bigger and better mountain ranges-and bigger and better earthquakes-in the future than in the past." He adds that the earth will continue to get warmer for about a billion years...
...never stopped searching. Until 1914, when he died of pneumonia at 76, John Muir traveled up & down America's wonderful wilderness, later toured the whole outdoor world. Watching him grow restless after seven years in the confines of civilization, his understanding wife packed him off again to his mountain wanderings. His books & magazine articles won him admirers among the great and famous (Teddy Roosevelt ditched a political banquet to talk...