Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader of TIME for several years, I searched through your Oct. 12 issue for some report of President Roosevelt's visit to Elkins, W. Va., to speak and attend the Mountain State Forest Festival. He went from there to speak in Pittsburgh. I searched in vain, for it wasn't to be found. His special train was met by Governor Kump, Senator Neely and others. He was introduced to the crowd of at least 20,000 by Governor Kump and after his talk on reforestation he witnessed the beautiful coronation ceremony of Queen Sylvia VII. At least...
...Katherine in Egypt, where work will continue at least through 1937 on funds donated by John August Roebling, bridge-building scion. First analysis of the Egyptian records showed them equal in excellence to those of the Smithsonian's two older sun stations at Montezuma, Chile and Table Mountain, Calif...
...twist, too heavy to lift. Leviathan Levy's only trick is to knock down an adversary with a blow of his paunch, then lie down on top of him. Currently trying to impair his appearance further by growing a beard, Leviathan Levy hopes next month to "wrestle" Man Mountain Dean (TIME...
...addition, through pioneer investigations launched by the scientists who brave the climate of the mountain summit year-around, the station, is rapidly becoming one of the country's most important centers of meteorological research...
...extreme conditions of the mountain top, which low temperatures and high winds combine to make the coldest inhabited spot in the United States, it has been necessary for the observers to invent extremely rugged and specially adapted instruments for their work. Among the most famous of these is a heated anemometer, designed particularly for this station, which once registered a wind velocity of 231 miles per hour, far in excess of any previous measurements...