Word: mounting
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...serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor with wide knowledge and a penetrating intellect, Scott was the Oregonian to thousands who never heard of Pittock. In 1933 his statue in bronze was set up in Portland's Mount Tabor Park, with one arm stretched toward the city centre...
...trek to the Artillery range at the foot of Mount Mansfield is no problem in this day of motorization. By noon July 12th camp was re-organized and preparations made to follow out the ideal life of the Artilleryman: "March and shoot." Tactical problems (Roops), Artillery Firing of all types; even demonstration firing of the heavy calibre 155 mm. adjustment of Artillery Fire by Airplane, Camouflage and Field Fortification and an overnight tactical maneuver; all had their part in the schedule of activities...
Eugene Smith Austin, Mount Pleasant, Tennessee--Hay Long High School...
...tumbled mountains of Northern California, among which Mount Shasta's snowy crest is the noblest (14,161 ft.), rush three sturdy rivers-the Pit, the McCloud, the Sacramento-to unite under the latter's name in a deep valley just above Redding, Calif. Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
Miiller revised the Sermon on the Mount, Bishop Weidemann the Gospel according to St. John. Though both jobs were done more than 18 months ago (TIME, Jan. 25, 1937), the Friends of Europe pamphlet is the first extensive English study of them...