Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's democratic manners, when in spite of a heavy mist rapidly turning to rain, Franklin Roosevelt asked to have the top of their car lowered the better to see and be seen. "Comme c'est joli!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt, indicating the rounded dome of Sugar Loaf Mountain...
While reporting a murder trial in a North Georgia mountain town last year, I heard Pepper make an argument to the jury which almost had me in tears-and I was used to such things...
Presently the big automobile reached Mountain View, was coursing down a road lined with orchards when a Buick sedan belonging to Valley Electric Co. suddenly popped out of an intersection. In the resultant crash, Audrey McCann was thrown out, knocked unconscious, hospitalized for four weeks with a brain concussion, an eye injury, many a laceration. The McCanns and the Hoffmans remained friends until John McCann tried to collect damages. When the Hoffmans and their insurance company refused to pay, the McCanns sued the Hoffmans for $30,000 general damages, plus $1,237.65 special damages...
...Chalk Age (60-130 million years ago), achieved wingspreads up to 30 feet. These hollow-boned hobgoblins weighed no more than a Thanksgiving turkey. In the older Jurassic period (130-170 million years ago) they were generally much smaller than in the Chalk Age. Digging into a desert mountain slope which once was seabottom, Dr. T. A. Stoyanow, University of Arizona geologist, laid bare a Jurassic pterosaur skeleton with a wingspread of some 28 feet, biggest specimen of that period ever found...
...Framingham over Armistice Day and Climbed Nobscot "Mountain", looking over miles of Massachusetts though cold bright air. Roses in My Love's cheeks. The mountain is not much but steep in places and you get up a nice wind climbing in a hurry. A trail over boulders and around logs and it is all rather civilized because you meet people on their way down, but nevertheless the nicest hill to climb near Boston...