Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instruction in the world. To him have come King Albert of Belgium; Germany's finance minister, Dr. Schacht; Kurt Schuschnigg, dictator of Austria, and notables from every continent. One of his assistant instructors, Otto Lang, the author of "Downhill Skiing" will extend the Arlberg System to the slopes of Mount Rainier in Washington this winter...
Head of the biology section is Oscar Kirchoff, whose father was brought by Founder Ward from Alsace, and who will mount any skeleton from a humming bird to a mastodon. Humming bird skeletons once cost $25, but Preparator Kirchoff now turns them out with such dispatch that the price has dropped to $10. John Santens, 60, Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering...
Skiiers will be encouraged by word from Mount Mansfield, Vermont, that good trail skiing is to be found on the upper parts of the mountain, while the carriage road may be run to the foot. Heavy snow in the latter part of November provided the earliest skiing in New England...
...Museum, Union Station, Merchandise Mart ("world's largest building"), Marshall Field department store, Civic Opera and Wrigley Buildings; in Manhattan, Wanamaker's and Gimbel's stores, the Flatiron, Equitable and Chase National Bank Buildings; for Washington, the Union Station and General Post Office; California's Mount Wilson Observatory...
...fund-raiser with names and arguments. Colleges are not so shy as they used to be about hiring outside fund-raising help, but the prejudice against it persists. Princeton has engaged John Price Jones and Tamblyn & Brown to make preliminary studies, but has always managed its own actual campaigns. Mount Holyoke's Mary Emma Woolley, reluctant to deal with a professional fundraiser, collected some $100,000 in three abortive spurts before she finally engaged Tamblyn & Brown, who raised...