Word: summits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best specimen orchid plant shown by a commercial grower. The little old man was John Emil Lager, orchid-hunter, aged 72. He had grown the Rarest Orchid in his Lager & Hurrell hothouses in Summit, N. J. where grow nothing but orchids. Last week his Show entry of 133 plants, 60 varieties, won a special award as the finest commercial orchid exhibit...
...mount to its summit round by round...
...Kinsolving once appeared in Baltimore wearing a broad-brimmed hat. A bootblack asked him if he were Buffalo Bill, who was expected in town. "No." said the Bishop, "I'm Texas George." Before his death in 1928, "Texas George" ordained his son, Rev. Walter Ovid Kinsolving (now of Summit, N. J.), and his nephew "Little...
Hardbitten as Dr. Andrews is, the Gobi fascinates him. Occasionally it makes him poetize. Writes he toward the end of his narrative: "Wandering over the brick-red sediments all of us eventually arrived at an isolated cone-shaped butte. From its low summit we looked down upon a relief map of rounded hillocks, tiny flat plains and miniature ravines. Almost every inch was covered with animal footprints...
...Hapgood, Winchester, N.H.; Eric Hartmann, Springfield, Mass.; Jack Hexter, Cincinnati, Ohio; F. E. Sears, Jr., Concord, N. H.; Morrison Sharp, Hingham, Mass.; C. E. Smith, Cambridge, Mass.; W. R. Smith, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; G. R. Steue, Williamsburg, Mass.; R. L. Swann, Schenectady, N.Y.; L. R. Thiesmeyer, Summit, N.J.; E. J. Hickey, Cambridge, Mass.; Milton Hopkins, Port Washington, N.Y.; R. H. Howland, Providence, R.I.; P. R. Jenkins, Rochester, N.Y.; C. L. Johnson, Waukon, lowa; W. D. Keller, N. Kansas City, Mo.; C. F. Kellogg, Gt. Barrington, Mass.; L. C. Keyes, Cambridge, Mass.; Henry Lasker, Hyde Park, Mass.; S. T. Kimball, Manhattan...