Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forest fires on mountain slopes in the Leftist-held Ebro River salient last week brought a Rightist offensive to a sudden halt, resulted in the 26-month-old war's quietest week. Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself commanded during the early part of this drive. Mentioned casually, however, last week in a Rightist communiqué as the new commander of the Ebro offensive was able, forceful General Juan Yague, who directed the successful Rightist offensive last spring. This meant that General Yague, relieved of his command-rumored even to have been put in jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech...
Berkshire Chamber Music (Wed., Thurs., Fri. 4 p. m., CBS) in its 21st festival, from South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. Performances by Pianists Jesús Maria Sanroma, Ernst Toch, Flutist Georges Barrère, the Roth String Quartet...
...tenoctave range, from airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets him work 20 hours a day for weeks at a stretch. His shock of water-spaniel hair is greying but he still looks young at 37. Coffee with lots of sugar instead of alcohol for a bracer is one of his rules, though he does drink...
...route to Palomar Mountain, Calif, are the 48 structural steel parts of the giant 200-inch telescope which will bring to focus four times as much light as the 100-inch telescope, make visible at least two billion stars now unseen...
...slight change in the temperature of the earth's interior would produce a considerable alteration of the crust. How the earth contracts and expands Dr. Brown could only speculate. Evidence for his theory lies in the fact that the fissures all over the earth (such as occur in mountain building) constantly repeat their openings and closings. Last advice of Astronomer Brown was the suggestion that sensitive instruments be set up near large fissures to measure the rate of their changes. Exact measurements might then lead to some predictions...