Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the recent completion of the cabin of the Mountaineering Club which accommodates eight men, weekends on Mount Washington have become increasingly popular. There have been from five to 12 men each weekend since the cabin has been finished. This innovation gives the skiiers the opportunity to take advantage of the first snow the mountain has and to practice on slopes which are more precipitous than those usually used for slalom and ordinary racing...
...realized that this hard & fast pronouncement was not based on sheer theory but was solidly documented by weather records for months, years, decades. Dr. Abbot studies solar radiation from his Washington station while his men study it from such farflung vantage points as Table Mountain, Calif.; Mt. Montezuma, Chile; Mount St. Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. With the help of a "brass brain" (a periodometer or mechanical calculator) which he invented to co-ordinate chaotic masses of data, he delved into the temperature and precipitation records of Bismarck, N. Dak., far back into the last century. In them he looked...
...Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Standard Brands will make Penn-Maryland's gin, will market its own brand, Fleischmann, through Penn-Maryland, make Canada Dry gin. The quality trade National Distillers reserved for itself-unblended Old Grand Dad, Old Crow, Old Taylor, Sunny Brook, Old Over holt, Large, Mount Vernon, In the importing field National Distillers took under its wing the old house of Alex. D. Shaw...
...time after the President's instructions to the London Conference the trace of Mr. Morgenthau's and Professor Warren's influence was not obvious. But in October the exchange value of the dollar began to mount. At the same time commodity prices started to sag badly (in accord with Dr. Warren's theory), had to be propped up by large Government purchases of wheat. On Oct. 22 the President over the radio announced that the RFC would begin setting its own price for gold. A week later when that step had failed materially to reduce...
...most spectators the climax of the National Horse Show's Golden Jubilee in Manhattan began on the next-to-last night with the finals of the international individual jumping championship for military mounts. Eight jumpers out of 15 had astonishingly come out of the first round with perfect scores. Since some of them probably could do as well in the jump-off, it was stipulated that performance plus speed would decide the winner. That gave the U. S., the Irish Free State and Czechoslovakia, with two finalists each, a theoretical edge over Sweden and Canada which had only...