Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spring Valley, Ill., when Prisoners James Gardini and Felix Mayeski asked Mayor-Judge Tonelli for mercy on the grounds that they could have escaped from the jail had they chosen, the Mayor bet them their freedom they could not escape. He locked them in their cell, walked upstairs and out the jail's front door, where he was met by Gardini and Mayeski, who had twisted off the rusty bars of their cell window...
...Court Justice Samuel Chase. And all the while, unpredictable Aaron Burr had been dickering with the British Minister at Philadelphia for funds to split off the nation's West from the East. The adventurer Burr interested Blennerhassett in a different scheme: to colonize a portion of the Mississippi Valley with young men who would be ready for anything from secession from the U. S. to an invasion of Mexico. Tired of his isolation, Blennerhassett readily helped finance the promotion. In May 1805 Burr first visited Blennerhassett Island. By the following year it had become headquarters for the proposed expedition...
...Addis Ababa. For the first time Ethiopian statesmen close to the Emperor discussed openly with correspondents this hypothesis: Suppose Emperor Haile Selassie should keep his rich native Province of Harrar but give up the Province of Ogaden in which the original Ualual Incident occurred, the fruitful Webbe Shibeli Valley and of course Aduwa, "if by this enlightened sacrifice His Majesty could bring a quick conclusion of bloodshed...
Thickly frosted in the frigid air of Moonlight Valley, S. Dak., start of the two previous failures, the great rubbery bag grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both...
...directly outspoken." In his dry, blunt speech. Composer Harris makes much of his background, of the fact that he was born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma log cabin which his father hewed by hand, of his own early years spent farming in California's San Gabriel Valley. At the age when most would-be composers are hard at their technical training, Roy Harris was soldiering. When the War was over he went West again, drove a farm truck. He studied briefly at the University of California where his first interest was philosophy, which he deserted when he found...