Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss Alps this week, on the slopes of the highest (6,000 feet) major valley in Europe, the snow lay five feet deep. It was dry and powdery on top, packed solid beneath, ideal for skiing. Above towered the two mountain giants, Languard and Julier, up to their waists in dark green firs. On a terrace, its streets white-carpeted with snow, lay the famed resort town of St. Moritz, a chockablock jumble of low, square houses and great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz...
...Saturday Review of Literature for a list of her current reading. Besides the collected poems of Robinson Jeffers, Actress Anderson, who plays eight hard shows a week, listed one current novel, a couple of biographies, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, the collected works of Charles Dickens, the collected works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce's Ulysses, the Bible...
Also meeting on February 1 are the Gibson Giant Slalom at Cranmore Mountain, North Conway, and a cross country and jumping event at Holden, Massachusetts. The Gibson Slalom will consist of two runs of top-flight class A and B competition. Varsity skiers booked for this event are Gordy Abbott, Dee Bogert, Jerry Genn, Don Justus, Rod Nordblom, Frank Seabury, and Bill Wasserman...
...overruled the commanding general of the 8th Mountain Division, who had told correspondents: "She will not go to Konitsa. She may be queen, but I am king up here." Frederika was the first to cross the shell-blasted bridge to Konitsa after the engineers had repaired...
...first time, A.M.A. gave a gold medal and a certificate "for exceptional service by a general practitioner." The winner of the honor was big (6 ft., 245 lbs.) Dr. Archer Chester Sudan (rhymes with Sioux Dan), 55, whose hamlike hands have been caring for patients in Colorado mountain villages for more than 20 years...