Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world silver prices actually mount all nations will soon be laying down goods in China at very cheap rates in terms of China's silver money. Result of this dumping is likely to be deflation in China. Chinese workmen will be thrown out of work, and the probable result will be actual reduction of China's demand for foreign goods including U. S. cotton, oil, lumber...
Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St. Catherine.* There in a wastebasket he came across a bundle of 43 stray vellum leaves which a monk had tossed aside for lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus...
...Some scholars believe that this peak rather than the modern Mt. Sinai, is the site of the burning bush through which God spoke to Moses. Because Mount St. Catherine is high, dry and dustless, the Smithsonian Institution now has a solar observatory thereon...
...mulled ale, or over a shot of Scotch, depending on the reader's taste in such things, and leave an impression of leisurely chuckling over life, with some admixture of the entomologists insect-on-the-pin curiosity. Unquestionably, no one will be purged by this book, nor will he mount through it to an ivory tower; but nearly everyone will enjoy it, and nearly everyone will remember for at least an hour after reading it that he is human...
That was the peak of Jockey Sloan's parabolic career. He had gone to England in 1898, dumfounded the crowds at Newmarket by gluing his small frame monkey-like to his mount's neck instead of perching high in the saddle. In the next two years he booted in 63 winners in 151 races, mostly for the late Lord Beresford. He saw English jockeys copy his "American style." He was exhibited to Mayfair drawing rooms, wore the silks of Edward of Wales, heard the future King shout from the royal box: "Well ridden, Sloan...