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Word: mountainous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, based upon an Associated Press release from Denver, stated that 100 Colorado public elementary and high-school teachers had been given a history test in Denver by the Rocky Mountain Nevus, and that the average grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Since the Club's first year, members have taken part in annual climbing jaunts up mountain peaks, across glaciers, and down erevices throughout the world. HMC representatives made up half the party which in 1936 reached the top of Nanda Devl, the highest peak yet scaled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icy Crags Hold No Red Flags Before Eager Mountaineers | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

About an hour after the takeoff, Master Sergeant Sutre Paijkull, in a rear seat, idly watched one of the Bristol's two propellers bite into a milky fog. Through a sudden rift he saw a mountain ahead, heard Chief Pilot Nils Werner scream: "Oh, my God." The next sounds he remembered were the soft voices of Italian peasants poking about the wreckage which pinioned him in pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: In a South Wind | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Surrealist Landscapes. A sense of wonder pervaded the journals that Lewis & Clark kept. They expected to find mammoths and perhaps stranger prehistoric creatures. There was said to be a mountain of solid rock salt somewhere along their way, 180 miles long and 45 miles wide. They came into a land where they were shut in by steel-blue mountains, so alike that they seemed to have come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Model Expedition | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...cold mountain air of the upper Himalayas pervades this novel of north India, giving it a quality, like its setting, far removed from the luxuriant misery of the plains. It is a novel notable for a fair effort at balancing sympathies between

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anger Under the Snows | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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