Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they called vainly. There are no curtain calls at Bayreuth. Oldtime Festivalgoers noted many a change that had come to the Festspielhaus and vicinity since the last festival (1928). Modernity has encroached on the Sacred Hill. A new office building of severe modern design rears beside the peaceful slope. A post orifice and police station have been erected to the left of the Festspielhaus, whose lawns, traditionally unkempt, have been carefully trimmed. Geometric flower beds sharpen the contrast to the former natural wilderness of the scene. Across the road the iron sword of Siegfried. Nothung, no longer flaunts its misinterpretation...
...other foci: 1 & 2) in China, whence the modern outbreak of the late 1890s spread, one on the eastern slope of the Himalayas, one on the western slope; 3) from the centre of Arabia to Mesopotamia; 4) Uganda near the source of the White Nile...
...Later a simple service would be held at All Souls' Unitarian Church on 16th Street where Mr. Taft regularly worshipped. The sons left the White House to motor across the Potomac with Col. Hodges to Arlington National Cemetery. There they selected an interment plot on a wooded slope over-looking Washington, a few hundred feet from the grave of Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Todd...
...unable to meet the formal admission requirements. To provide for such girls, the residents of Old Bennington, Vt., laid plans six years ago to establish a college. Under the leadership of Dr. Vincent Ravi-Booth, townsmen and summer visitors raised over $500,000 and provided a campus on a slope of the Green Mountains where oldtime Mount Anthony Seminary was founded...
...capital in the coffee-growing highlands. From there, the expedition has radiated into the surrounding country on field trips of varying length, which the courtesy of landowners has made possible. Early in October interesting collections were made in Pejivalle in Cartago Province, an upland, jungle section on the Atlantic slope. Two weeks at Santiago de Cartago gave opportunity for many finds from the lower portions of the volcano. Turrialba, and the deeply-forested canon of the Rio Reventazon...