Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson can claim many fundamental discoveries, but not the new supernova, which was first photographed with the 18-in. Schmidt telescope of the California Institute of Technology on Palomar Mountain, future site of the 200-in. telescope now under construction...
Last Sunday, as they will every fair Sunday until the end of November, farmers flocked up Blue Mountain, in Pennsylvania-Dutch Schuylkill County, to watch for hawks and eagles gliding above them, to sit fascinated watching-and never to make a murderous move toward a shotgun. For the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, atop Blue Mountain, is the only spot in the world where birds of prey are protected, and perhaps the world's best place to see them on the wing...
These field trips will serve to reveal the role played by the mountain making events and climatic changes that occurred during the process of human evelution in southeastern Asia...
...Henderson showed the pictures, filled with scenes of how to got up a mountain while holding on to a tiny crack in a vertical cliff and letting one's feet dangle out over thousands of foot of open space...
...actors in the Drama of Missions, Philadelphia churchwomen sewed 1,300-odd costumes which were sent to Virginia to be dyed by students in a mountain mission school. From missionary outposts of the Church, some 40 Episcopal converts and workers went to Philadelphia to appear in the pageant. A professional director of civic and patriotic shows, Percy Jewett Burrell of Boston, wrote the Drama of Missions...