Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...altitude of nearly 20,000 feet, 3000 feet below the summit, the accident occurred. Despite the attempt of his interpreter and two guides to carry him down the mountain, he died at an altitude of 18,000 feet...
With this objective in view, the program for a group of students consists of three weeks' life in a European family, followed by four or five weeks of bicycling, camping, and mountain climbing in the company of European young men and women of one's own age. Traveling expenses are extremely light. In In a preliminary game at 6.30 o'clock, the two Freshman aggregations will meet in what promises to be a close, exciting tilt...
...will be possible to translate mountain observations, such as those taken on Mt. Washington, into data for free air at the same altitude in many different localities. It will be no longer necessary to take expensive airplane flights to obtain this data...
Szechwan's earthquake was mighty enough to rearrange the map of Szechwan. In the southern mountains, ancient home of the non-Chinese Lolo, Sifan and Miautse tribes, it opened a mile-long rent in a great mountain. The shaking mountains hurled the little Lolo citadels from their peaks into the valleys, like shot-putters at practice. They threw avalanches into the gorges of the tributary Yangtze rivers. For five hours Chiang's cherished line of last defense undulated and crumbled. It was a week before the first meager tidings trickled down the Yangtze to Nanking...
...waterpower tunnel was begun at Gauley Bridge along the forest-fringed New River in southern West Virginia, with cheap transient labor, black and white, from mountain districts as far away as Georgia. The tunnel went through white sandstone and quartz which were 99% pure silica. Every blast of dynamite puffed deadly silica dust down the throats of sappers who wore no protective masks over their mouths & noses. Rapidly men began to die of silicosis, pneumonia and tuberculosis. When workmen refused to go into the tunnel heads, foremen, according to subsequent court testimony, often clubbed them on. But the foremen dutifully...