Word: muir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearby peaks of the Whitney group bear mostly the names of geologists, explorers, and other men of science (Whitney, Langley, Muir, Hitchcock, Guyot, Russell, Leconte, Tyndall, etc.), while our great peaks in southern California have "saint" names, (San Antonio, San Gorgonio, San Jacinto, San Gabriel, etc.)--Anglo-Saxon and Spanish contrasted, or science and religion, if you like. However, we have a Devil's Punch-bowl across the range from Pasadena...
...Glacier Bay locality was first studied by John Muir about 50 years ago. The largest of the ice streams, the Muir Glacier, once visited annually by thousands of tourists, has retreated over eight miles since 1900 and now cannot be approached by a steamer of any size because of the large amount of ice floating in the channel...
...Near the front of the Muir glacier, only recently uncovered, are the remains of a pre-glacial forest which was destroyed and covered up by the advancing ice several hundred years...
Department of Physical Education (additional men): Harry Goerger, Frank Hurley. R. H. Lee, Robert Muir...
Professor William Lyon Phelps, nationally beloved teacher at Yale University: "I commented last week in Scribner's on the fact that three recent novels have manicure girls as their heroines (Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis, Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Jones in Paris by Ward Muir). Of manicuring I wrote...