Word: summits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crust with three inches of corn snow. Laconia, N. H.: Gunstock trails are fairly well covered but unbroken for the most part. Open slopes have abundance of snow but inclined to be sticky. Near melting temperatures. Pinkham Notch, N. H.: Washington and Wildeat trails partially broken. Thirteen inches at summit and 11 1-2 inches average of wet snow over hard crust provides good skiing, not too fast. Stowe, Vt.: Continued snowfall makes good skiing on Mt. Mansfield. The continuance of tonight's rain makes prophesy difficult. If the temperature remains constant, conditions north of Laconia should be excellent...
...Simpson entered this world at Monterey Inn, perched about a mile from Blue Ridge Summit in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Last week the wealthy, horse-breeding obstetrician who attended her mother, Dr. Lewis Mines Allen, former Professor of Obstetrics at University Hospital, Baltimore, said: "I remember the incident only vaguely, but I do recall Wallis as a little girl. She had long hair and was pretty and exceptionally magnetic in her personality...
...Builder was tottering, half-blind William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, who left his pyramid unfinished when he died last spring at the age of 85. Believing that the worms of decay were making fast work within the body of society, "Coin" Harvey planned to place at his pyramid's summit the steel-lettered legend: Go below and find the cause of the death of a civilization...
Beginning next summer the Mt. Washington observatory will have a new building on the summit. This structure, two stories high, has been designed by the engineering staff of the Boston and Maine railroad to withstand wind velocities of over 200 miles an hour, and will be anchored by bolts sunk four feet into the rock. Construction is already in progress, under the direction of Col. Henry N. Teague...
...addition, through pioneer investigations launched by the scientists who brave the climate of the mountain summit year-around, the station, is rapidly becoming one of the country's most important centers of meteorological research...