Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the jungle grew too dense for horseback riding, the Viceroy cast dignity to the Himalayan breezes, and began with gusto to scramble and to climb. Leaving the jungle behind, as they ascended, the party made a rocky climb of nearly 5,000 feet to the summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where he was met by a motor car and whisked 14 miles...
...Smart persons do not confuse Commodore P-e-r-r-y with Rear Admiral Robert Edwin P-e-a-r-y (1856-1920), discoverer of the North Pole (1909) and father of the "Snow Baby," Marie Ahnighito ("Peaked Mountain") Peary, once famed as the Farthest-North-born white infant, later the daughter-in-law of Judge Wendell Philips Stafford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
...breathtaking excellence; Albert Laessle's Billy, a statue of a capricious goat, was much admired by visiting children. Cyrus Edwin Dallin, whose Appeal to the Great Spirit, stands in front of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, sent in several small bronzes; Richard Recchia showed his Frog Mountain. There were, perhaps, too many fat little boys squirting water and too many totally unimportant garden decorations...
...adopted by many a city police force as well as the U. S. Marines. It weighs only ten pounds, which is 100% lighter than any other weapon of similar functions. It fires 100 shots per minute and is valued for spraying death into a city street or narrow mountain defile. U. S. gangsters as well as police admire and use Thompson submachine guns. They are fired from the hip or from a rest on boulder, windowsill or automobile tonneau...
Militance & Independence. So early as 328 B. C. Alexander the Great marched victoriously over the chill Hindu Kush mountain passes of Afghanistan on his way to conquer in India; but it is a rule of modern history that no Occidental people can conquer and then hold the bleak land of the fanatically warlike Afghans. During the last century Great Britain repeatedly occupied the Afghan capital of Kabul and the town of Kahandar (see Map) but her troops were always withdrawn and invariably with heavy losses. True the Afghan casualties were likewise heavy, but Britons have not forgotten that during...