Word: mt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alien, Asiatic Communism-not socialism. A managed farm economy is socialism, and we've got it, and we've got to keep it." And at a service-club lunch at Burlington, Iowa, a man who has 1,400 acres of fine corn land between West Burlington and Mt. Pleasant said: "The big Easterners are trying to sell Eisenhower that all he has to do is toss the farmers a little help after disaster hits, like it has in Texas. We went for the New Deal because it gave us a program to prevent disaster before it comes...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin took time out from a punishing European concert tour to climb Switzerland's 9,757-ft. Mt. Schilthorn. delighted his wife and companions after the six-hour ascent by standing on his head at the peak and running through his yoga exercises...
Home to a tumultuous welcome in Papakura, New Zealand, Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mt. Everest, made all sorts of news. He announced plans to marry a New Zealand music student in September; obliged photographers by flopping his 6 ft. 3 in. into a symbolic white victory chair built on skis which admirers presented to him; and he told how he first heard of his knighthood. "We were strolling down a mountain pass about halfway to Katmandu," he said. "We had long beards and looked extremely disreputable-in fact, like I do in Papakura. A Sherpa came along with...
Clare Scifi was wellborn. Her father was the Count of Sasso-Rosso, the wealthy scion of an ancient Roman family, who owned a sizable palace at Assisi and a castle on Mt. Subasio. Clare was beautiful, with long golden hair, and it was not surprising that when she was 153 most eligible young man asked for her hand in marriage. But Clare said no; she wished to consecrate herself to God. Her parents hoped she would grow...
...twin births are declining, reported Obstetrician Alan F. Guttmacher, of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital, in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Until 1939, one out of every 86 births in the U.S. was a twosome. By 1949, the U.S. twin rate had dropped to one in 97, and the ratio is going farther down. Dr. Guttmacher, an identical twin, believes there are some undiscovered biological or environmental factors affecting the glands of U.S. mothers...