Word: plateaus
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...clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about its job in an orderly manner...
...Rain forests," Loveridge explained yesterday, "are patches of dense forest on isolated plateaus in East Africa. They're being rapidly enroached on by plantations, and once the trees are cut, no more grow back. The sun is so hot that it practically sterilizes the ground...
...hold next January. Although Brazil is bigger than the U. S. in area (3,300,000 sq. mi. to 3,027,000) and larger than the United Kingdom in population, presidential politics are the private affair of three kingpin States: Sao Paulo (coffee & cotton), rich, populous Minas Geraes, whose plateaus sparkle with manganese and diamonds, and most of all, in recent years, of cattle-raising, tobacco-growing Rio Grande do Sul (see map). What made big Francisco Flores da Cunha pop so explosively in Rio Grande last week was his shrewd suspicion that Getulio Vargas is contemplating too bold...
...mixture of gases is cooled under pressure, the freezing point will be raised as the pressure is increased until the mixture becomes a real compound, beyond which point pressure increase has no effect. On this basis, trying different proportions of argon from 1% to 60%, the chemists found six plateaus on their graphs of freezing points which indicated six unstable compounds of argon, containing, respectively, one, two, three, six, eight and 16 molecules of boron trfliuoride...
...mmommommommomm. The booming throbbed, swelled, seemed to shake the air. On each of the mountain tops that hang over Addis Ababa other drummers smacked their drumheads. The monotonous, terrible call to war spread out from the capital, from mountain top to mountain top, across the wild gorges, jungles and plateaus of Ethiopia, until it rolled into the capitals of the six great rases (princes), whose war drums took it up, passed it on to the great chiefs and the little chiefs. To the farthest nomadic tribes, foraging no one knew where, couriers rode out by mule and camel. "Kitet...