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Word: valleyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quack or genius, Roerich led a busy life that brushed against Eternal Krishna the Regenerator-and the ferrets of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue; against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his devotees reared to his name a 29-story skyscraper, graded (like one of his own paintings of Himalayan mountains) from deep purple at the base to white at the top, and hung there 1,000 paintings from his facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Silver Valley | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

White Blossoms. Roerich never returned to the U.S. With his wife and son he retired far from the world of Wallaces and Peglers to his beloved Kulu Valley in the Punjab, the "Silver Valley." "Whether in winter," he once wrote, "when the snowy cover sparkles, or in spring, when all the fruit trees are covered with snowy-white blossoms, the valley equally well merits this name." He had noted that its healthy people did not have cancer. There Roerich, drinking in the mysteries of Hindu and Buddhist shrines, also tried to learn what diet or beneficent rays or simple ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Silver Valley | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Aspen, Alta, and Sun Valley dominate western slope sliding with their fast, dry snow, bare mountain-sides, and long runs, Sun Valley even goes so far as to offer outdoor swimming all year around, and both Aspen and Alta are also blessed with mild weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bored? 'To West, Young Man' Is Advice to Embryonic Pro | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Nearby is Snow Valley, the skier's Coney Island. Broad snow-covered highways of novice and intermediate difficulty, run from the unloading stations of two lifts and two tows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Summer of Labor Makes East Large Winter Sports Drawing Card | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Although their main attraction, instructor Fred Iseland, has gone to the Aspen ski area in Colorado, Snow Valley with its long season due to north-facing slopes provides fair to good skiing for large weekend crowds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Summer of Labor Makes East Large Winter Sports Drawing Card | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

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