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...like to call mountains. As gentle as the hills, as placid as the river, the Berkshire villages rise to break the pleasant monotony of the landscape. Their generous houses, most white and clean, front on broad streets with here and there a stretch of New England common. Their lawns slope gracefully to the languid river. Such a village is Stockbridge...
...working hours will be devoted to plane and topographic surveying, including cartography, triangulations, land, road and shoreline surveys, and observations for the determination of meridian and latitude; railroad surveying, with earthwork, slope-staking, preliminary survey, estimate of quantities and cost and other subjects connected with the laying of railroads will also be a part of the curriculum...
...standing upon the hilltop, chanting a Vedic hymn; he carried a flaming torch which, with a graceful stoop, he applied to a pile of carefully prepared faggots. The faggots went up in a cloud of smoke and flame; Krish-namurti's disciples, of whom a thousand sat upon the slope of the hill, drew a breath of wonder-and listened while their leader spoke to them in a soft voice...
When there were packets on the Atlantic the sailors in them were called rats. Packet rats talked in a peculiar idiom. To them the ocean was a slope, as it was to Virgil's sailors. From west to east they called "downhill," from east to west "uphill." Last week a 20-foot whaleback lifeboat with four Dutchmen in it sailed out of the Thames into the Channel. One of the Dutchmen is 70 years old. He, Jacob Schuttvaer, designer of the lifeboat, wants to prove it is unsinkable. His boat has neither wireless nor auxiliary motor. With...
...slope of Capitol Hill, in neat position to help the U. S. government function, lives the Anti-Saloon League of America. Its building is of humble brick, painted a bellicose red. Upon its windows in large gold letters is painted the name: "Wayne B. Wheeler...