Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upriver expecting to find Oriental gold and spices. They never reached China, but the voyageurs, fur traders and missionaries who came after them canoed up the river and its tributaries into lands that were to prove far richer than fabled Cathay. The river led them to the Mississippi Valley, the Great Plains and the fur, mineral and timber country of Northern Ontario and Quebec. Their camp sites, trading posts and missions are today's cities and towns...
...scenes but bathes the pages in storms, mists and sunny fields of color. His tenuous drawing comes through the color only by degrees; then it whispers convincingly of the lofty world and divine forms that Virgil more robustly describes. Whether Villon is picturing the morning sun or a fertile valley at evening (opposite), he excites the observer's memory and imagination to fill out and give weight to the scene. He has the tact not merely to show his meaning but to share...
...manpower situation is concerned, the department is finally emerging from "the valley of the shadow of death" according to Chairman Randall Thompson '20. At least one new professor and one instructor will be appointed next year, and possibly more. But, even if this problem is solved, the more difficult question of the function of a music department in a liberal arts college will still remain...
...troops cleared his enemies out of Saigon. In the streets of the city, "Da Dao Bao Dai" (Down with Bao Dai) was now the throbbing cry. As for Chief of State Bao Dai during this dark hour in his young nation's history, he continued to make his Valley Forge in sunny Cannes...
...combat its reputation as an expensive country, France is plugging the low-cost package tour, e.g., an eight-day jaunt from Paris through the Loire Valley, along the Riviera and back for $100, including all transportation, food and hotels. The French national railway now offers a 30% discount on trips of 950 miles or longer, provided that the tourist stays at his destination for six days or more. And the new issue of the famed Guide Michelin, which has always concentrated on quality rather than price, now lists more than 2,000 restaurants where a traveler...