Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...please advise your Sports Editor to look up the record of Earl ("Dutch") Clark, quarterback of Colorado College (Colorado Springs) of the Rocky Mountain Conference. Watch him, playing on the small College of about 500 students, make at least honorable mention for All American...
Under Jesup, Dr. Osborn was in the glory of manifold activities. He searched the Rocky Mountain states for vertebrate fossils; he was making the American Museum's vertebrate collection the best in the world; he was grouping and arranging exhibits for their best educational value. Outside the Museum he was lucidly teaching biology and zoology at Columbia, scientifically reorganizing the New York Zoological Park, and deftly getting money support from municipal authorities. One vexation he had. Administrative and organization work and the preparation of his paleontological papers prevented his writing the many books whose subjects tumbled through his thoughts...
...Cumming made a special point of telling Congress about the fundamental research the Public Health Service is making in various diseases-cancer, tuberculosis, goiter, leprosy, trachoma, undulant fever, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pneumonia, venereal diseases...
When his ship nosed into Rio's mountain-shadowed harbor last week the port was reverberant with welcoming din. Airplanes cavorted about. A great passenger plane, with 14 people, half of them national notables, almost struck another machine; the pilot veered, weakened a wing, went into a tail spin; the plane splashed into the water; all 14 were drowned. Rio's din ceased. Flyer Santos-Dumont walked from his ship, head down, depressed...
...Byrd's aim is to explore the South Polar continent. It contains 5,000,000 square miles; is covered, except for its margins during its summer, with thick ice. There may be a water channel all the way across it, joining the Ross and Weddell Seas. There are mountain ranges. They may be extensions of the Andes; they may be related to the formations of the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Those Antarctica mountains and the tremendous ice cap help make the South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole is light...