Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General zoological collections have been procured for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard from the mountain forests of Northern Siam and British North Borneo. Work on the highland and lowland forests of primate collections and the detailed study and correlation of information procured in the field remain to be done...
When informed that bicycle riding in forbidden on the Westchester County (New York) system of parkways Buder declared that he would travel by way of the Bear Mountain bridge. He was uncertain about this route, too. "They'll let me across the Bear Mountain bridge, won't they?" he asked...
...zither, a German-Austrian-Swiss folk instrument, is sometimes called "the mountain piano." A really good zither is a shallow box with 41 wire strings. Laid on the lap or a table, it is played by fingering with the left hand, plinking with a thumb pick and fingers of the right hand...
...morning last week United Air Lines Flight No. i took off from Newark for Oakland, Calif. - an 18-hour, 2,600-mile journey. Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, where passengers changed to a 21-passenger Douglas DC3, and Rock Springs, Wyo. slid by below. A few miles farther along, skimming the mountains at 10,000 ft., veteran Pilot Earl Woodgerd reported clouds but "OK." It was 8:19 p. m. with the ship about 140 miles northeast of its next stop, Salt Lake City. Then for twelve hours there was silence. Finally U. A. L. announced that its plane had been sighted...
Trenton (pop. 370) is the proud seat of triangular Dade County at Georgia's northwest corner, only a few miles across the State line from Chattanooga. The towering bluffs of Lookout Mountain cut the county off from its own State, help keep its population at less than five to the square mile. When highway construction-last month closed the road to Chattanooga, township Mayor I. H. Wheeler quickly asked the Southern Railway to stop its crack New York-New Orleans limited at Trenton to supplement the sole, inconveniently-timed local. The 10:25 a. m. northerly limited would land...