Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard will establish a separate camp and will conduct its experiments apart from direct association with any other university, although it is expected that nearly a dozen colleges will set up similar camps in the path of total darkness. The headquarters of Lick Observatory, of Mount Hamilton, California, will be located in Conway, New Hampshire. The period of totality of the eclipse, will be from 98 to 100 seconds, although partial darkness will obscure the entire afternoon...
Three native operas besides The Emperor Jones will soon be on the market. Merry Mount, an opera dealing with the conflict between Puritans and Cavaliers, will be given by the Metropolitan season after next. Rochester's Howard Hanson wrote the music, Richard Leroy Stokes, critic of the defunct New York Evening World, the libretto. In Paris Alonzo (godsgate) Elliott, the Aleman who wrote "There's a Long, Long Trail,"- is busy making an opera out of Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson's riproaring What Price Glory? In Vienna Composer Robert Russell Bennett (Kansas City) will spend the summer...
...going along Mount Road, the main street of Madras, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when I saw on the other side of the road about a dozen Indians, walking quietly along, one of their number carrying a flag. On inquiry I was informed that they were members of the [Gandhite Indian National] Congress. Such action is illegal in India...
Another good way was to pick out the jockey you liked and play his mount. The field, weakened by three important withdrawals in the last week, was not up to Derby standard and the horses were hard to rate on form, but everyone knew about most of the riders. Everyone could have a good look at them. Perched like bright birds in the sun on the veranda of the jockey house, they sat chatting to each other. In the moving crowd below the veranda stood a detective watching them...
...wearing Mrs. "Jock" Whitney's fuchsia silks, as was Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor, whom she had chosen to ride Stepenfetchit. Ten years ago, when he was regarded as the best rider in the country, Ensor's conviviality grew so pronounced that no trainer dared trust him with a mount. This year, reformed at 34, his comeback has been even more dramatic than Sande...