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Word: vt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brattleboro, Vt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Brattleboro, Vt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

LeTourneau's dual occupation seems natural enough to him. Born to devout parents in Richford, Vt., he had three maternal uncles who were ministers, two missionary sisters. At 51 he is a bald, rugged six-footer who looks not unlike Presidential Aspirant Robert Alphonso Taft. He has frequent fits of temper, but he neither smokes, drinks nor swears, likes to lend his loud, bass voice to a revival audience and shout: "Gone, gone, gone, gone. Yes my sins are gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Piety & Profits | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Green Mountains run the White Mountains a close second. At the foot of Mt. Mansfield, snuggling in a snow pocket only 200 miles from Boston and 333 from Manhattan, Stowe, Vt. always has snow (from December to May). Its 60 miles of varied trails (including daredevil Nose Dive) are enough for two weeks' skiing without duplication. Other famed Eastern trails for experts: Mt. Greylock's Thunderbolt, steepest of the 16 downhill trails in the Berkshires; Suicide Six, near Woodstock, Vt., where schussnuts whizz down its 1,800 feet in less than 60 seconds; Tuckerman's Ravine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Million Schussers | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Burlington, Vt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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