Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the straight gasoline. Larger doses still further decreased the CO coefficient until between three and four ounces was reached, which Dr. Hutchison considers the ideal mixture. The compound will be inexpensive to manufacture, and will, if the results are sustained, make garages and tunnels as safe as mountain tops. The Society of Automotive Engineers is greatly interested in the discovery...
Flying over the barren waste of the Alaska Peninsula, surrounded by a heavy fog that blotted out the desolate, treeless, uninhabited shores below, two aviators, speeding westward, crashed against a mountain side. Miraculously uninjured, they picked themselves from the wreck of their plane and started on a search for life, warmth, food. For seven days they labored across that rough, uneven country. At the end of a week they came to a trapper's cabin on the southern tip of Port Moller Bay, nearly at the end of the peninsula. From this haven they flashed back word that they...
Major Martin wired Major Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Army Air Service: "Crashed against mountain in fog at 12:30 o'clock. Neither hurt but ship total wreck. Our existence due to concentrated food and nerve. Arrived at a trapper's cabin, southernmost point of Port Moller's Bay, morning 7th, exhausted. Found food. Rested three days. Walked to beach. Awaiting instructions here...
Fleming'25 of West Newton as Business Manager; Cornelius DuBois'26 of Englewood, News Jersey as Secretary; and the appointment of Donald LeBosquet Sweeney'26 of Newton. Highlands and of Leicester Haydon Sherrill'26 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Assistant Business Managers; and of Charles Wellesley Hillard'26 of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey as Circulation Manager...
...trade-route for centuries, and we found many of their original holy books, written on long paper scrolls, in the original Sanskrit, or translated by medieval scholars into Chinese or Turki. It was significant because of the light it shed on the influence these traders, straggling periodically over the mountain passes, had on the art of the early Chinese...