Word: mounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont this summer. Camp opened on June 27 and the first two weeks were spent in the concurrent camp at Fort Ethan Allen where the formal training was done. The last four weeks were spent deepen into the Green Mountains, under the slopes of Mount Mansfield, where facilities were available for artillery firing and the more practical side of field training. All hands agreed that the latter camp was the more enjoyable, placed as it was beside a cold mountain brook that had been dammed to make a swimming hole and, incidentally, a ducking pond...
...were doing their best to fight the growing conflagration on the other side. Only animals in the Jacobs barns were seven saddle horses, valued at from $1,000 to $3,000 each, including a five-gaited, Kentucky-bred stallion named Lady's Man which was a favorite mount of Senator William E. Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help get the horses out. The firemen, aware that insurance on their equipment was void if the equipment was damaged outside Boise, quick-wittedly refused. While the horses burned to death in screeching agony, Boise's firemen played their hose...
...heavyset, silver-haired, pleasant man of 65 whose hobbies are golf and a $100,000 collection of French and Dutch oils, August Kochs, with typical German thrift, has always financed Victor expansion out of earnings. At present he contemplates a $1,000,000 plant with electric furnaces near Mount Pleasant, Tenn., for which the company has signed a $500,000-a-year power contract with TVA. This hefty expansion could be swung by private financing, but August Kochs has lately been pestered by stockholders who want a market valuation for their stock. Therefore last week Victor Chemical Works offered...
Also in the Bishop's palace are the offices of the general staff. Few headquarters were ever more carefully guarded. Before it every morning is held a ceremonial guard mount. In turn, companies of Regulars, Moors, Carlists, Falangists. Revisionists take this guard, placing sentries at every corner of the building. No matter who has the office guard there are always on outside duty, in addition: two city police, with rifles; two tricorne-hatted civil guards, with rifles; two white robed Moors, with rifles; assorted plainclothesmen, with revolvers. Vigilance does not stop there. Inside the building, in the large bare...
...than lawn bowling. It was played in 12th-Century England and by the time of Henry VIII had provoked such a riotous fever of ambling that even that riotous monarch put it down by law. First notable U. S. player was George Washington, who had a bowling green* at Mount Vernon. A fresh-air cousin of indoor bowling, lawn bowling, recently revived, is nowadays a decorous game which appeals chiefly to oldsters, who find its 3½ lb. bowl (ball) easier to handle than the 16-lb. indoor ball. Last week 160 of its foremost enthusiasts assembled in Chicago...