Word: mt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn, two white Kenya policemen climbed into a jeep and drove down the rutted trail that leads from Nyeri into the forest at the foot of Mt. Kenya. It was still dark among the camphor trees, but Policeman Ian Henderson knew that Mau Mau sentinels were watching, and he drove without headlights...
Within twenty-four hours the Reed Club had started a petition drive to rally student support. Organization spokesmen cited the College's action in the Norman Thomas affair of 1920. Indicted under a city free speech ordinance in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Thomas had been invited by the old Liberal Club at that time as a substitute speaker for Eugene Debs, 1920 Socialist candidate for President, who was then in jail. The College had not interferred, and on the night of October 18, Thomas had spoken at the Union...
...California dealer began his telegram. At least two dozen salesmen, like Hoffman, used the telephone technique, and some have phoned several times to follow up their first sales efforts. Long-distance calls have come from such widely scattered points as Lubbock, Texas, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Mt. Lebanon...
...Presented the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal to British Explorers Sir John Hunt and Sir Edmund Hillary for their successful expedition to the summit of Mt. Everest. ¶ Prepared a message to be delivered to Congress this week, asking leave to 1) share U.S. atomic information with other NATO countries, and 2) permit private industry to develop atomic energy for peaceful purposes. ¶ Announced that he and the First Lady would leave this week for a flying, five-day work-and-play vacation in Palm Springs, Calif, as the guests of his old friend Paul G. Hoffman...
Whether the new building remedied this problem has since been debated, but the fund-raising campaign, boosted by William Randolph Hearst, was a cheering success. Soon a triangular lot bounded by Plympton, Bow, and Mt. Auburn Streets was purchased, and architect Edmund Wheelwright, one of the Lampoon founders, was commissioned to design the building...