Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hydroelectric plant being hacked out of the desolate countryside near ore-rich Cerro Bolivar. Also built or building are railroads, schools and housing. But many projects are notably frivolous. Item: a $30-million cable-car sightseeing system, with oxygen-equipped cars, to the top of 15,380-ft. Mount Espejo...
...sleepless child.* Other pediatricians doubted that so minute a dose would have any detectable effect, though some said they might give it to a baby with colic if the family had no other sedative in the house. The Rev. Dr. Albert P. Shirkey of Washington's Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church was outraged. "I feel it was a terrible blunder to prescribe 'toddies for toddlers,' " he intoned from the pulpit. "To give [alcohol] to children is to have them grow up with a taste for it-maybe a craving for it. Who knows but from so innocent...
Mohammed V, King of Morocco, was touring George Washington's Mount Vernon home when the news of President Eisenhower's illness hit the front pages. Said he, when he got the report later: "Why did you have to tell me this?" Replied an aide: "Well, your Majesty, someone had to." "Yes, I know," said the King. "I wish it were not so." Thus, on the first .day of a two-week trip in the U.S., the royal guest was confronted with the unhappy fact that his host had become ill right after bidding him welcome. When the President...
Baker was walking back to Leverett House, of which he is a resident. He had passed the quartet, standing on the corner of Mount Auburn Street, seconds before. No words were exchanged at that time...
They base their conclusion on experience. Dr. Paul Friedman of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital and Dr. Louis Linn of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital were aboard the lie de France on the night of July 25, 1956, when the Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria. As several hundred survivors were brought onto the lie, the psychiatrists spoke to them and noted their psychological condition. Reporting their findings last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Drs. Friedman and Linn noted that the "women and children first" principle brought "some poignant and . . . tragic separations," added that the "principle...