Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three longest suspension bridges existing at present are: 1) the bridge at Philadelphia reaching across the Delaware, with a span of 1,750 ft.; 2) the Peekskill (Bear Mountain) bridge over the Hudson-1,632 ft.; 3) the Williamsburg bridge over the East River-1,600 ft. The new bridge is to be 3,192 ft.-twice the length of the Brooklyn Bridge...
During the passage over the Himalayas the expedition worked its way through twelve mountain passes, some of which have never before been attempted by white...
Senator Borah of Idaho called on Mr. Hoover in Washington and invited him, in the name of Governor H. C. Baldridge and other Republican Idahosts, to go to their state next month and hunt wild animals. Senator Borah promised "cougar, elk, moose, mountain goats, deer, bears or eight delegates. It is really a wonderful country." Mr. Hoover declared he would gladly hunt in Idaho...
...desert diocese on his cream-colored mule, Bishop Latour was respectfully studious of its folklore. He was austere towards priests like Padre Martinez, the bison-shouldered Mexican at Taos, brazen in fleshliness. But when Jacinto, his Indian guide, led him through a blizzard to shelter in a secret, tribal, mountain cave, the Bishop honored the inscrutable and did not ask if the vibrant mystery of the place was, besides a buried river, some ceremonial monster, an infant-devouring serpent as legend said...
...certain way and, later, telling what he had seen. The boulder had tilted, dropping him into a shallow vault, then crashed shut. Feeling his way through Stygian passages for perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba's "Open, Sesame" story. Knotting a clutch of treasure in his burnoose, he next chipped a crack in his prison's rose...