Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House: four stories, marble, Italian architecture, 30 rooms. A Gobelin tapestry 25 x 10 feet depicts a hunting scene. The marble stairway is lined with heads of caribou, deer, elk, mountain goats, mountain lions killed by?...
...over. Then came relays of 120 pallbearers, great men thus greatly honored, who bore the coffin to the special funeral railway station, and placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since no human foot is allowed to tread above an Emperor, the workmen had to be "purified" by a peculiar rite. After this rite they become officially "no longer men, but white winged birds which...
...years of history, with party passions running mountain high, with the Senate aisle at times the pathway to the dueling field, never was there a suggestion before the instant case that the door of the Senate could be closed in the face of a Senator-designate because something he had done was not liked...
Preservation of a portion of one of the most noted tracts of primeval forest in this part of the country was assured by Harvard's purchase of 20 acres on Pisgan Mountain, Winchester...
...land, located near the top of the Mountain, is famous due to the fact that it has never been cut over...