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Among the 56 U. S. peaks over 14,000 ft. high, Mt. Whitney's solitary spire, rising 14,495 ft. into the California sky tops them all-highest land point in the nation. On the uplands close by lies Lake Tulainyo, highest U. S. lake. Eighty miles due east is Death Valley, 276 ft. below sea level, lowest, hottest spot in the U. S. Last week Californians celebrated the opening of 17 miles of CCC built roadway, the last link in a highway connecting the highest and lowest spots in the U. S. A gourd of mountain water dipped...
...those members of the Class of 1940 who wish to join a House with a gilded spire, or set of wild Russian bells, Winthrop regrets that it has nothing to offer, other than rooms which overlook all the gilded spires of the town, and which are within earshot of the aforementioned wells. The lack of architectural elegance, however, is more than compensated for the group of congenial undergraduates who live in the two fine Georgian buildings, Gore and Standish Halls. It is generally believed that lack of cerise of mauve colored tower has helped to poster the democratic make...
...TIME has set me right, and I am grateful. It all happened at Scapa Flow, under the lonely kirk spire at Kirkcaldy. By any chance, do you suppose, was it at Scapa Flow that the Germans scuttled their fleet after waiting under the guns of the Grand Fleet to find out what the Peace Conference would...
Harry Emerson Fosdick who packs the Riverside Church from spire to cellar each Sunday morning with his popular sermons will preach on December 8 at the Memorial Church. Also on the list of preachers for the fall term are Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Seminary, and the Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Trinity Church, Boston...
General of the Flyers and was off with his bride to Berlin Cathedral. Guffaws from the populace were attributed to a stork which sedately circled the Cathedral spire at the crucial moment, then flapped off toward East Prussia...