Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the President of the U. S. told White House correspondents that he could think of only three ways to get rid of the nation's cotton mountain. He could burn it in a huge bonfire. He could float it into the Gulf of Mexico and sink it-no fantastic dream, for Brazil, weighted down by a similar mountain of coffee, tried both...
...Author Richard Blackmore's novel, when outraged citizens marched against the Doones-outlaws who levied tribute on the surrounding country-they set up cannon on the mountain ridges on both sides of Doone Valley but, falling into discord, fired across the Valley at each other while the Doones sallied out unscathed below. Boomed Lindsay Warren...
...rifles, took rubber-soled boots from one, bootlaces from the other. He made a false trail up the precipice behind his boulders, then doubled back. Next day when the posse closed in on his fortress, he was not there. While they tried to trail him with bloodhounds on the mountain, while militia dragged up a howitzer, Earl Durand held up a car down on the valley road...
...Meanwhile, Herr Hitler planned to remain in the big new Chancellery at Berlin until April i, when he is to go to Wilhelmshaven to launch a new 35,000-ton battleship. He is then to go to his mountain retreats in Bavaria, but is to return to Berlin in time for his soth birthday, April...
...great Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried to measure the velocity of light by means of lantern signals between mountain tops. Naturally he failed. Light travels about 186,270 miles (more than seven times the circumference of Earth) in one second. In modern physics, light is regarded as the fastest thing in the universe, and its velocity in empty space as a fundamental constant of nature...