Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Commander Gene Tunney was led over an hour and 20 minutes of jungle trail to an advance post in Bougainville (TIME, Jan. 10). True. But Tunney was not taken up that difficult mountain trail to see how Marines were "taking it." . . . The Marines had been relieved by soldiers. You report also that on the way back the "45-year-old, 210-pound Tunney set the pace with a dogtrot, kept his followers puffing...
...bridges by day, and the wooden shack in which he composed it, beside his bridge over the Rio Pardo, is a venerated Brazilian relic. A plea for Brazilian unity, it is essentially an encyclopedia, almost as difficult reading as one, with its pages of geology as toilsome as the mountain they describe, its descriptions of droughts as parching as the plains. It is also as informative as an encyclopedia. As a report of military intelligence, with its microscopic account of the war against Conselheiro, it makes U.S. studies of battles in the Civil War seem almost superficial. Through its long...
Brooklyn Bear Mountain...
...from Camp Hale, where U.S. troops train for mountain work, that Private Dale Maple recently deserted with two German prisoners (TIME, March 6). Most recent revelation: probably eight other U.S. soldiers were involved in the plot that already had Naziphile Maple facing a charge of treason...
...weather. But Astrophysicist Abbot has been watching solar radiation with heliotrope devotion for 49 years. Twenty-five years ago he began to take daily recordings of solar heat. The Smithsonian set up delicate measuring instruments on three mountaintops in desert areas which averaged 300 cloudless days a year-Table Mountain, Calif., Burro Mountain, N. Mex. and Mt. Montezuma, Chile...