Word: mountains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...flat cars are equipped with chairs from the Readsboro factory of President Pope, the Boston & Maine Railroad lends an old day coach for the trip, now reaching only to Mountain Mills, two miles from Wilmington, Vt., where the line's trestle was washed out in the March flood. The remainder of the trip was by automobile...
...conservative reputation at a time when it is conducting an endowment drive, Princeton is loth to accept money from so dangerous a sources as the International Union. Yet the principle of turning down ready cash seems altogether ridiculous. From this simple beginning the University has built itself a mountain of a problem...
...problem of finding someone to pit against Joe is solved when Noah, the gigantic, bearded father of one of Sadie's three informal children, takes umbrage at the usurper, comes down the mountain with his fowling piece. After a careful rehearsal of grunts, groans, screams and floor-poundings, the two are shown wrestling in the arena. Pep talk before the bout: "Never forget, boys, that a good wrestler is always a good performer...
...they ardent so Baum. Crislermen will Nee Moore than one Sandbach and one Barnicle to stop Harvard. Teams Bothwell be fighting, lose Irwin, and Tigers will get Hedblomped. Harvard has had to Bayer heavy Toll of Pyne and Marks from blows, but will win. Princeton won't be a Mountain too much, but will be all in a Flather, thinks Sage Vruwink the game through alcoholic haze. Score; Harvard 2, Princeton...
...first importance is the attempt at the Mt. Washington observatory to translate mountain observations into data for ordinary "free" upper air at the same height above flat ground. The weather forecaster needs a continuous record, day and night, in all kinds of weather, of conditions in the upper air. At present the only method of obtaining these data is by expensive airplane fights or balloon ascents at intervals of hours or days; these do not give a continuous record and are not practicable in bad weather when records are most needed. They are well on their way towards ironing...