Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lake Wales the train stopped and the presidential party was greeted by Governor and Mrs. Doyle E. Carlton of Florida, and by Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Bok of Philadelphia. Blue-coated Marines stood at attention. The President and his party motored three miles to Mountain Lake and then they walked slowly, almost reverently, into a "Sanctuary for Humans and Birds" that Edward Bok had conceived, that Architect Milton B. Medary had built, that Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmstead had set in an aurora of tropical colors...
...autumn night two years ago, a band of Apaches came down from the mountains, rode across the border to Douglas, Ariz., attacked the ranch of Francisco Fimores, scalped his wife and took his son with them when they rode away. Last week, believing that the Apaches were raising his son as a member of their tribe, Francisco Fimores led forty riders across the border, up the mountain trails to find the Apaches, fight them, and rescue...
Vermont. North-and-south across Vermont run the Green mountains, dividing the state like a spinal column. Vermont governors are usually selected according to a "rule of the mountain," which provides that the western and eastern halves shall alternate in supplying the governor. This oldtime "mountain rule" was broken last fall when Vermont voters re-elected Governor John W. Weeks. Lieutenant Governor S. Holliston Jackson, "logical" candidate under the mountain rule, was drowned when Vermont was flooded (TIME...
...game. Other shots: the feet of farmers under a coffin fumbling on a wooden stairway; a boy who has been punished raving at the closed door of his room; a hay-harvest, and, later, an avalanche in the Swiss Alps; the stepmother saving the boy, Jean, from a mountain river where at last he has tried to drown himself...
...Hubert Wilkins with his airplane pilot Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson, last week, discovered that Graham Land is separate from the Antarctic continent. Between them is an ice-covered strait. Graham Land itself seems to be fringed with an archipelago. Between a great plateau to its north and a double mountain chain to its south is a broad expanse of white, which may indicate a valley or another strait...