Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every year a three-or four-day visit was paid to Miss Berry's School in Georgia and those interested were taken to the Pine Mountain School in Kentucky...
...fringe of the Bavarian Alps, lie the twin villages of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The houses have brightly painted walls. The inns have tiled stoves in the dining rooms. Woodcutters in green felt hats, puffing pipes that reach down to their waists, use oxcarts to haul pine logs down the snowy mountain roads. Last week the wintry quiet of Garmisch-Partenkirchen was pleasantly shattered by an event which mystified the woodcutters as much as it delighted the innkeepers by accounting for the presence in the town of some 50,000 visitors, including Realmleader Hitler himself. The event was the opening...
...athletes paraded out of the arena, observers thought they saw Herr Hitler, whose tiny mustache was by this time white with snow flakes, smile with special gratification at the particularly loud cheers given the Austrian delegation, look yearningly at the mountain tops, a few miles beyond which lies the Austrian border. Half an hour later the last of the athletes had filed out of the skistadium and the Olympic Games were under...
...Appalachian Mountain Club race he got a fourth over the Wildcat trail at Pinkham Notch and was on the team all the year, going to Dartmouth just for the slalom as noted above, and entering the Olympic tryouts held under the auspices of the Hochgebirge Club...
...teaching in Black Mountain Progressive College, were the entire student body is required to take his course...