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...diminutive size compared to other major trail-entwined slopes in Pico Peak in Rutland, Vermont. There are an alpine lift and a rope tow hauling for two open slopes and one trail. The open slopes, though short, are sleep and difficult, and provide good proving grounds for slalom and schuss techniques...
Strongest points on this mountainous line were probably between Pontecorvo and Pico, roughly a third of the way from Cassino to the sea. This week the fast-advancing French threw a block on the five-mile road between them, went to work to take both towns...
...Circolo Italiano Prize of $20, for the best essay on a subject in the field of Italian culture, was won by Brooks Wright '43, of Cambridge, Mass., for an essay on "The Cabalistic Studies of Pico della Mirandola...
...important discoveries were reported by the Department of Biology during the summer. On the Illinois prairies William C. Darrah, instructor in Biology, discovered "the most perfect plant fossil over found," and in the trackless forests of the Pico del Yaque Mountains in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Phillip J. Darlington, assistant curator of insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, found many new species of insects, worms, and reptiles, hitherto unknown to science...
...saved just enough to feed his family for six months. Within that six months he persuaded a young Los Angeles millionaire named David R. Davis to finance him, and the two of them hung their hopeful shingle (DAVIS DOUGLAS CO.-ENGINEERING DEPT.) in the window of the Pico Barber Shop in Santa Monica...