Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Carolina has risen into a mountain of industrial pride, where cotton is transformed into sheets and pillowcases, where tobacco is fed into billions of cigaret papers, where skyscrapers in Winston-Salem and Greensboro grow fast. Virginia retains much of its old aristocracy. Industry progresses along with female academies. South Carolina seems to have become the "valley." Charleston, which many times defied the nation, is now content with a less vigorous aristocracy. But the real change in South Carolina has come back of the tidewater where famed Ben Tillman led a revolt of the agrarians and the "poor whites...
...magnificent of palaces. This was the Grand Lama himself, famed politico-religious absolute primate of Buddha. Above him, to the topmost of its gold-vermilion finials, now caught by the last reflected glow of the sunken sun, soared 436 feet in air his ancient palace, crowning a green-clad mountain. The Grand Lama passed within...
...hurricane of wind swept everything before it. ... Through the jet black night only the majestic contour of vast Alagoz, the volcanic mountain with its dome of eternal snow standing out like a beacon on the broad Leninakan Plain, could be perceived...
President Robert Lieber of First National Pictures decided three months ago to build a cinema "city" for his productions at Burbank, Calif., in a mountain cranny which sprawling Los Angeles has not yet been able to annex...
...become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Haven Evening Register, Boston Sunday Advertiser, Peoria (Ill.) Star, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Cleveland Press, Topeka (Kans.) Daily State Journal, New York Evening Journal, Los Angeles Examiner, and Newark (N. J.) Evening News...