Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regional flavor as distinctive as the home towns of many of their senders: Contoocook, N.H.; Battle Mountain, Nevada; Olive Branch, Mississippi; Pocatello, Idaho; Vienna, Georgia...
...many cases, he thinks, this balance can be restored only by drastic reduction of human population (100 million Americans would be about right). According to Vogt, medical men who keep people from dying, upset nature's balance; if more people died there would be more room for mountain lions...
...Swiss Davos, where the crocuses still bloomed and the cowbells tinkled, Bemelmans found the tuberculous rich coming again to the magic mountain from the four corners of the world. "The smoke from the disinfecting plant drifts up the side of a hill, and this Grand Hotel fashion of luxurious dying away from home is sadder than any other I have seen. The graves here lie in greater and more aching lonesomeness than soldiers' graves, in foreign lands...
Things were pretty quiet last Sunday night in Denver. To build up a police-beat yarn, the tabloid Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News ran it under a 96-point Page One headline...
...views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind v. regimented thought, the relationship of disease to creative activity and the "German problem," before, during & after Hitler. Faustus can in fact be read as an intellectual sequel to The Magic Mountain, that massive and brilliant examination of European thought on the eve of World...