Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer of 480 B. c., and marched through Thessaly. Herodotus recorded that he had 1,800,000 men; modern historians say about 180,000. Leonidas, king of Sparta, met him with only 7,000 men at Thermopylae, a narrow strip of dry shore between the cliffs of Mount Oeta and the swampy border of the Maliac Gulf. Hearing that a big detachment of Persians had found a way around the pass, Leonidas sent 5,000 soldiers to head them off. Xerxes then effected a great slaughter against the remaining Thermopylae defenders...
Motoring across Europe in 1929, when Europe seemed far from war, two young American women, Mount Holyoke's Mildred Burgess and Syracuse University's Marguerite M. Lux, decided it would be nice to open a college for U. S. girls in Switzerland. There girls could combine study with music, art, mountain climbing, skiing and meeting charming young Europeans. The Misses Burgess and Lux got Eleanor Roosevelt, Newton D. Baker and other bigwigs to sponsor their college, opened it in Geneva in the fall of 1930 with 25 students at $1,500 a head...
...noted traveller and director of the New England Museum of Natural History, Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, will speak on his explorations of Mount St. Agnes and Mount Sanford, Alaska, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...your waist two or three inches. . . . To allow your hips to round out . . . many a new corset aims to release, rather than to flatten, hips -employing soft fabric gores and gussets on the sides to lighten the hip control. . . . The better to accentuate the bust . . . some corsets mount from two to six inches above the waist. . . . Already, of course, you're used to the idea of the camisoles, petticoats, ruffled panties, batiste underwear with lace or eyelet embroidery that aided and abetted Edwardian silhouettes. . Soon your figure may be slightly Edwardian...
...number of variable stars were discovered in the systems by Walter Baade and Edmund P. Hubble using the powerful talescope of Mount Wilson Observatory. It was then found that older Harvard sky photographs taken at the South African station had recorded some of these variable stars. Determination of the distance of the new system followed...