Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition. Captain Noel was appointed photographer of both expeditions to Mt. Everest, and therefore is regarded as an excellent authority on what actually happened. His new book gives a human account of all the exploration that has ever taken place in the region of Mt. Everest in southern Tibet. Going back to the discovery in 1852 that "Peak XV," 29145 feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess...
...swift in a game, quick-witted at play. Her red-brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening to the dark music of her instrument, bringing with them some hot beauty from life. "Conway calling alone would talk...
After a lapse of a year, a southern-university will send its football team to Soldiers Field next fall. The University of North Carolina has been billed to fill the one open date on the 1928 gridiron schedule, and will appear in Cambridge on October...
...Sore." Senator Caraway, balked by program committee, issued statements charging that "the farmers feel that the banking and industrial interests have prejudiced the leaders of the country, even the President of the United States against any relief for farmers." Peppery, he stormed and fretted; quit shortly, "sore" (said one Southern delegate) "as a hound dog with a briar...
Following the dispatch of the message, which read, "Offer services of airplane and pilot for flood relief," Crocker Snow 2L., licensed pilot of the club, took a reconnoitering flight on Saturday afternoon over the flooded areas of Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, accompanied by E. W. Wood '29 and F. P. Sproul '29, who also hold State licenses as pilots...