Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liang Ssu-Ch'eng, distinguished Chinese architect and archaeologist, and Professor Josef Albers, of Black Mountain College, will be visiting lecturers next year at the Department of Architecture...
...river, another river which looped almost directly beneath him as he lay at the rim of the valley and gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid yellow from their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices--not in smooth little aprons but in balls...
...taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above supported by gigantic, perfectly shaped pillars, widely spaced so that one could see far back into the endless gloom. Occasionally sharply defined sunbeams would filter down to the bare forest...
Having once meshed, the two never pulled apart, stuck together even in Holly wood (Love Me Tonight, Mississippi). Except for Blue Moon, which was an independent song hit, their best songs (Mountain Greenery, My Heart Stood Still, I've Got Five Dollars, Ten Cents a Dance, The Lady Is a Tramp) have come right out of their shows...
...without mishap. DC-4's chief safety device is its four engines, developing 5,600 h.p., powerful enough so that any two, even two on the same side, will keep it flying at 7,000 ft., any three will carry the plane 5,000 feet above the highest mountain in the U. S. Furthermore, if one engine fails on takeoff (this possibility has given nightmares to many a DC-3 pilot, whose plane has only two engines), the plane can still get off the ground...