Word: mount
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...plane in the world." To Commander Glen Kidston, rich British sportsman, Detroit Aircraft was to ship this week "the most expensive single- motored plane ever built in the U. S."-a special Lockheed, price $36,000-for "commuting" between Commander Kidston's London home and his plantations near Mount Kenya, Africa...
...Foundation. Partly it was a genuine attempt to give U. S. horses a test that would show what they might do at Aintrée. Entered were three good English horses-St. Roy, Kilbairn, and Man-amber. Best of U. S. entries seemed to be Stephen Sanford's Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing horses-17 of them- swung in a half-circle, and down the straightaway past...
...when Mr. Coolidge was new to the field of belles lettres, Sculptor Borglum commissioned him to write a 500-word history of the U. S., which Sculptor Borglum would then carve beside the colossal figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt which he is hewing upon the austere face of Mount Rushmore, S. Dak. Discovering that the first hundred years were literally the hardest. Historian Coolidge took his time over the inscription, finally submitted a few paragraphs...
...Union League Club the trustees of the Mount Rushmore Memorial-among them, President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co., onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois- met to choose a substitute historian, adjourned for a year without being able to do so. They did adopt a budget of $70,000 for 1931, promised newsgatherers that by next November the figures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be complete as far down as the waistcoats, that men would be at work on Abraham Lincoln...
...Latest plans for Mount Rushmore have the inscription not only in beautiful English but in beautiful Latin and in beautiful Chinese, Japanese or Sanskrit as well...