Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your review of John Symonds' The Great Beast was beastly . . . Aleister Crowley was an accomplished poet, a mountain climber of some ability, and an oddity whose biography should engage the attention of anyone interested in the vagaries of the human race...
...first returns from the mountain states and the Pacific Coast were...
...Tibet, lies the most remote kingdom in the world. The upland valleys of tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) Bhutan are as green and inviting as those of Shangri-La, and the passes that lead into them just as forbidding. Icy winds howl along the snowswept plains behind the mountain passes to discourage the traveler. Rugged barriers of snow and ice rise as high as 24,000 ft. Dense semitropical growth clogs the lower valleys. Fever haunts the forests, making them uninhabitable to all except endlessly prowling tigers and rhinos...
...time to stop telling children about the famous dogs of the hospice of St. Bernard. "If it is true that each dog carried a flask of brandy,"*says the Journal sternly, "then it may be said at once and with emphasis that no worse treatment of the chilled mountain wayfarer could be devised-far better today would be a Thermos of hot milk . . . In rescue work, whether in shipwreck or in exposure to cold on land, alcohol should be avoided as a veritable poison. If the rescued persons are brought into a hot room or given a warm bath, some...
This week Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of CalTech announced his conclusion that these filaments are probably the rule in space, rather than the exception. With the 48-inch Schmidt telescope on Palomar Mountain he found hundreds of luminous "bridges" connecting widely separated galaxies. The length of one curved bridge, sharp as a lighted boulevard, is more than 72,000 light-years (430,000 trillion miles...