Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then he will take up the subject of his expedition to Terra del Fuego, the region of desolation, stormy channels, mountain barriers, great glaciers, verdant forests, Cape Horn, itself. The Colonel will describe his trip on an Argentine warship to Ushnaia, the lone Argentine Penal Colony, southernmost town in the world...
...golden days of school-time there was a kind of immortal hero, who dealt in great feats of strength and who was the captain of the school football team. At some colleges the same mountain-of strength hero still exists. But at the University a football player is not made captain on strength alone. By tradition which has developed through many years the captain of a Harvard football team must have remarkable athletic ability and also the kind of character which makes for inspired leadership, both in victory and in defeat, not only on the football team...
Ober-Ammergau is surrounded by walls of rock, snow-capped peaks, mountain streams. Its little stone houses are gaily decorated by the paintings of unknown artists. And every-where are wooden crosses bearing the image of Christ. At the town fountain, water flows from His bleeding hands...
December 12--For Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and the Rocky Mountain states...
...tragic page torn from the primitive history of Carolina Mountain folk...