Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perhaps, and without perhaps, every passing day makes me feel myself, so to say, and this is the moment to state, nailed to my own geology. . . . My brain and my eyes have always been attracted by mountains. And of all mountains, it was Wagner who produced the greatest effect upon me. . . . If Wagner is the most difficult mountain to be observed distinctly, not only due to the lyric vapour in which he so often drowns, but also because of his non prehensible morphology, the contours of the Venusberg, one of the last mountains ascended by Wagner, . . . are much more difficult...
...grade ore from the mountain States-such deposits do exist not too far by rail from Portland. In fact, there are not only western deposits of iron ore but manganese, chromite, tungsten, and lesser metals. Trouble is that most of them are low-grade ores, which means that they are costly to develop...
...lovesick King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza on rye). Meanwhile her neglected sons Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris and Gareth confound their Saracen tutor Palomides, who talks rather like Charlie Chan, and beg stories from heretic St. Torealvac (parody brogue), who inhabits a beehive and drinks mountain...
Rhode Island: Horace G. Killam, Jr. Providence, Rhode Island. Rochester, New York: Richard M. Bloch, Rochester and Howard A. Joos, Rochester. Rocky Mountain, Colorado: David R. Howard, Boulder, Colorado. St. Louis: Joseph M. Leahey, St. Louis. Washington, District of Columbia: Henry H. Dearing, Jr., Shaker Heights, Ohio. Western Pennsylvania: Edmund J. Steytler, Pittsburgh, and Robert G. Tyson, Pittsburgh. Harvard Graduates living in Milton: John L. Cady, Milton...
...this Parkes excepts from autopsy. Marx was right, Parkes believes, in encouraging a militant trade unionism. Industrial democracy is essential. But the crucial error of Marxism, as Parkes sees it, was the theory that freedom could be attained only in a collectivized society. On this point the evidence is mountain-high. Says Henry Bamford Parkes: "Capitalist society is half free and half slave; instead of extending freedom to all, the Marxists propose to abolish the freedom...