Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game is being held for the benefit of the Christopher Mathewson Memorial Fund A memorial tablet will be unveiled to the memory of the famous twirler, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis will make a brief address...
...series of talks by members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, illustrated by slides which the members themselves have taken, will be given at 8 o'clock tonight in the Faculty Room of the Union, to all students in the University interested in mountain climbing who wish to attend...
...Club, which is holding a dinner for members tonight, has invited all those who wish to do climbing this summer, and who contemplate going to regions where mountain climbing is possible, to join it in the Faculty Room to listen to talks by various members on the climbing centers of the Alps and the Canadian and American Rockies...
...Service, still functions tamely; that igloos are seldom built of snow, but usually of driftwood and turfs; that William T. Lopp, onetime U. S. education chief for Alaska, got the Eskimos started in the reindeer industry, of which Carl Lomen is king; that there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight...
None of them at first will have paid much attention to the city of Butte straggling up the mountain sides, where by day mine mouths stare like blackened cataracts on the human eye, and by night lights glare coldly. In Butte there are good homes and business blocks. But for the most part the dwellings, chop houses, onetime honky-tonks, have a temporary air, a helter-skelter appearance derived perhaps from the mining camp tradition...