Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mainland dependency, was lashed by a storm which toppled 62 houses in the Keishonando district, lost eleven fishing boats near Fusan, bearing 70 fishermen. At Shingishu, Korea, 200 houses were washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui, unroofed houses, wrecked communications. At Nagoya, a despondent Japanese supplemented the work of the elements by throwing himself under a freight train. He was killed...
...country. With few playmates, George and Alfred depended mostly on each other and their imaginations, but in their eyes they lived in a world twice as exciting as any city kid's. In the best descriptions that have been written of the Northwest's giant forests and mountain scenery Author Binns makes convincing their swelling pride in the beauty of a land where high-speed logging operations had not yet penetrated. Here they counted for something. They were building a new country and a flag was raised every time "an American was about to be born...
...Harnasie are wild mountaineers in the Carpathians. Szymanowski lived with them for long periods, decided to write a ballet-pantomime full of their folk dances, a wedding, a drinking song. All these he strung together on a slender thread of plot about a mountain chief who abducts a girl. In Carnegie Hall the work was not pantomime, but the rich singing of the Art of Musical Russia chorus made it splendidly dramatic...
...American Samoa. Some 1,600 miles from Kingman, American Samoa is a cluster of six islands, inhabited by 300 whites and 10,000 Polynesians who used to eat each other. Tutuila is the largest island, 16 miles long, crowned with the lush, 2,000-ft. peak of a mountain called "The Rainmaker." There three months ago a Pan American airport crew set up a base, installed a direction finder in an abandoned mission. Ever since, the natives have been in a dither. Last week, as the Clipper creased the smooth waters of the bay, outrigger canoes and praus...
...When, weary of exile, he came back to Italy to see how the land lay. he found his former comrades scattered, missing or "reformed." A friendly peasant hid Spina in a shed, an old schoolmate had just enough courage to get him a disguise, send him off to a mountain village. Garbed as Don Paolo, a priest on vacation. Spina slowly got his bearings again, gradually began to sound out the political temper of his neighbors. Against his stubborn will he finally had to admit that ignorance and fear had drained all the political temper out of them. Here & there...