Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weather on earth depends upon radiations from the sun. Dr. Abbot receives in his Washington office telegraph and cable reports of the sun's condition as recorded at three solar observatories which the U. S. maintains on Table Mountain, Calif.; Mount St. Catherine, Egypt; Mount Montezuma, Chile. Last week he told the scientists in Rochester that he expected $200,000 from Congress to erect seven more solar observatories. President Roosevelt had written a longhand letter to Senator Joseph Robinson urging the appropriation, said Dr. Abbot...
...Good Old Days!"; "Wings of the River Ducks, Monroe Marshes, 1909. All Drakes"; "Pintails-They come in like no other ducks." Best picture in the book: "Woodcock-October Flight," a plate with the violet of early evening on swamp alders, and the big yellow moon coming over the mountain, easily a match for Rex Brasher's more meticulous rendition of the same ghostly little subject...
...thousand miles due south of Manhattan lies Punta Arenas, largest town in Patagonia, southernmost city in the world. Few tourists find their way there. Patagonia is a forbidding land of glacial mountains, dense forests and windswept plain, where women are scarce and the men are hard cases. Not because they wanted to avoid trippers but because the idea ex- cited them, Herbert Childs and his newly-married wife went to Patagonia on their honeymoon. She had been there before, had heard tales of an English settler far in the interior who might be good copy for a book. Getting...
...world-old way of the rain When it comes to a mountain farm To exact for a present gain A little of future harm...
Loomis has been in India for some time and has been attempting to establish a cache of food at the base of the mountain before the monsoon, which begins very soon, prevents any passage through the gorge. This bad weather, which will last until the end of August, will make it impossible to do more than go in to the entrance of the Rishinala where the party will wait until the first of September. Conditions should then be excellent for climbing until about the twentieth when the weather begins to make climbing dangerous...