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Word: valleyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less-than-20-sophomore Cadet squad will take the Stadium field ranked no less than second in the nation, and any further dirges from the Hudson valley will be relegated to the realm of low comedy...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Mr. Blaik Fields A Capable Team | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...Climb. Unlike the Matterhorn (14,780 ft.), a jagged spire of rock to which little snow clings, the white stairway of Mont Blanc looks deceptively accessible from Chamonix in the valley below. Any tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Men y. Mountains | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Today's CRIMSON may be sealed in a "Freedom Capsule" under a 100 foot flagpole in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The Freedom Foundation will pick 100 dailies for this distinction of immortality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson May Wind Up in Time Capsule | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

About the time of Christ, he died in a valley near Pisco,* on the coast of southern Peru. He was probably a high priest or a chieftain because his honored body had been carefully wrapped in layers & layers of cloth and buried far out on a barren desert. As the centuries passed, his people were killed or dispersed and all memory of them vanished. Last week his mummy, unwrapped with loving care at New York's American Museum of Natural History, showed what an odd and gorgeous culture had flowered in a desert-ringed Peruvian valley 20 centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fancy Wrapping | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Blocked Profits. Ebro is the principal source of electricity for Spain's chief industrial region, the whole of Catalonia and the Ebro valley where the Spanish Loyalists made one of their last great stands. Since 1910, Ebro had dutifully paid out profits to its owner, the Canadian-incorporated Barcelona Traction, Light & Power Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SIDRO, in turn a subsidiary of Dannie Heineman's Sofina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Second Battle of the Ebro | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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