Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first quotation might have been the remark of an imbecile or an ignoramus who hated professors. The second formed the prelude to a portion of the speech in which II Duce dealt with the widespread rumor that his police are a veritable tsar's cheka. He said: "It was necessary to weed out police, especially the plain clothes police. . . . When police are in plain clothes and have not the check of uniform they must be composed of picked men-zealous and silent citizens...
...little band of tired Presbyterians closed themselves in a San Francisco room last week. In the room were Dr. Robert E. Speer, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; J. Willison Smith, Philadelphia banker; Will H. Hays, cinema tsar. Each was a candidate for moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, which was holding its 139th general assembly at San Francisco...
...miles or so will have to be opened by blasting through the ice. This portion of the Jaspar National Park, which includes in its boundaries about 4000 square miles, includes 20 unclimbed peaks, all over 10,000 feet high and hundreds of square miles of still unexplored territory. Mt. Tsar the objective of the Ostheimer expedition is probably the highest of these unclimbed peaks and is one of the most difficult to approach...
Besides his attempt to scale Mt. Tsar, Ostheimer expects to make observations regarding the divide fluctuations of Fortress Pass. The Great Divide, which is only 8,000 feet high in this region, causes a variation in the direction of the flow of the glacial streams which makes all the water at times flow toward the Arctic and at other times toward the Pacific. Since these streams serve to distinguish the boundary lines between Alberta and British Columbia, observations, regarding them are desired by the Canadian government. At one time, in fact, the shifting of the courses of these streams...
Oatheimer also hopes to determine the exact altitude of Tsar Mountain and to make photographs of the creek south of Tsar for the Survey. He also intends to map Tsar Creek, which flower into the Columbia River, and to chart whatever other streams are found in the locality...