Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engaged in carving on the face of Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt...
...cold blue surf, stands smoothly against the ocean. Here fashionable people drift across bright water in sailboats or across wide polished roads in automobiles. Across Salisbury Cove other fashionable people have their docks for swimming, in Winter Harbor. Along the coast is the polite and spectacular beauty of Mount Desert. Sorrento lies near the three, a village in which there are a few big country places and several inns, where people, rich and respectable rather than smart, stay for a few weeks or a month...
...have been brought up in the doctrine that a Christian cannot fight, because he cannot hurt those whom he loves. Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount, said, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you" (MATT...
...first time that the eyes of public cameras had seen President Coolidge on the back of a horse, either iron or flesh & blood. Dressed in complete cowboy costume down to Mexican spurs, the President rode three miles up the side of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, accompanied by his riding instructor, "Dakota Clyde" Jones; Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and others. Following a presidential salute of 21 blasts,? President Coolidge dedicated the national memorial which Gutzon Borglum began to carve on the granite face of Mount Rushmore. "We have come home to dedicate a cornerstone that...
...outstanding chapter, flanked as are most of the chapters by appropriate selections from Mr. Noyes's verse, relates for U. S, ears as well as English a visit to the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. Mr. Noyes was there the night the new 100-inch telescope was first put into use. The experience started him writing his blank verse epic of science, The Torchbearers. The U. S.'s high rank in pure science was superbly certified when Astronomer George Ellery Hale called his guests and assistants to be the first humans to witness the rising of one of Jupiter...