Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annex was outclassed by Smith (149), Colby Junior College (112), Mount Holyoke (92), Skidmore (86), Wellesley (79), Bradford Junior (28), Vassar (27), Connecticut College for Women (26), and Green Mountain Junior College (25). A preliminary examination revealed that Radcliffe was also outnumbered by The University of Massachusetts, Simmons, Boston University, Mount Ida, and LaSalle, all of which placed in the teens...
...waves raced at more than 400 m.p.h. toward Hawaii, hundreds of residents of beach areas moved to higher ground, crowded mountain highways. At 1:30 p.m., three medium-size waves struck the northeast shores, washed over highways. One hour later, a 13-ft. wall of water thundered over Mokuleia Beach on northernmost Oahu, flooded several homes and stores. The four waves passed, Hawaii began counting up the damage. As in 1946, northeastern Hilo has suffered the most-$100,000. Casualties: six cows...
Pemex itself, ridden with politics and labor trouble when Aleman came to power, is now a going business operation. In the opinion of one oldtime Mexico City oilman, it "stands out like a 20,000-ft. mountain when compared with other Mexican government operations." Over the past six years, as Pemex has ended its anti-U.S. policy and sent technicians north of the border for advanced training, production has increased an average of 15% annually, is now almost double what it was the year before expropriation. Two big refineries have been built at Reynosa and Salamanca, three other refining...
...little Catskill Mountain village of Tannersville, N.Y., the theater's most famous Peter Pan marked her 80th birthday. Maude Adams, who was delighting Broadway 47 years ago as the little boy who didn't want to grow up, now lives in quiet seclusion, seldom seeing friends or neighbors, as she works on her memoirs...
Eleven months Billy labors; the twelfth he rests with his wife, three daughters and baby boy, and a Great Pyrenees dog named Belshazzar. The Graham family lives in a six-room, grey stone house in Montreal, N.C. with picture windows, rhododendrons, a hammock by a mountain stream, a TV set, and a log fence to keep out nosy tourists. But the Rev. William Franklin Graham is at his happiest when he is at his busiest and loneliest: on the platform in a vast amphitheater, or drawling into a mike the Tarheel tag line to his ABC broadcast, "May the Lord...