Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four centuries ago, Persia's Shah Tahmasp looked on the sparkling waters of the Karun River on one side of the Zagros mountain range and at the parched and dusty land around Isfahan on the other side, and issued an imperial decree: let the waters of the Karun be brought to Isfahan so that Isfahan valley may bloom. Thousands of peasants chiseled into the mountainside to cut an aqueduct, but midway they hit a core of hard rock that dented even the Shah's will. Work stopped...
Just how much resting energetic India will do is in doubt. Still vice chairman of the National Committee, she has five speaking engagements on her way to the coast, and as Husband Herbert (her third) once said: "She is a rushing mountain torrent. She's so intense that when she has to rest, she wears herself out with the intensity of resting...
...front of his large fireplace is a mountain of blue books. University rules require that each test booklet is kept for one year after the examination. And so Nock stacks the books carefully and on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day, he sweeps the pile into the fire. Then he prepares for the next batch...
...focus interest on the stage are even more lamentable. The enormous cast keeps the stage constantly cluttered, particularly since some of the sets have at least four doors or windows which spew forth actors from time to time. Two of the sets, the Baker Street flat and a mountain chalet, are excellent, but the partitioning of the stage to present flashbacks which could be far better expressed in a sentence of dialogue makes the clutter hopeless. In the general disarray, the involved tale of the stolen Bruce-Partington plans is all the more difficult to follow...
...their next visit to the mountain, the two pilots took along Geologist Stephen Melihercsik. When he saw the ore he caught the pilots' excitement. "What a beast!" he exclaimed. "Terrific!" It was iron and titanium ore. The three men formed a partnership, and over the next few weeks, bought 70 mining claims...