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...ambulance drivers on reaching Italy were assigned to three sections. Section 1 had its headquarters at Bassoon a town in the mountain district of the middle western Italian front. In this section, Eliot and Droppers were the only men to receive the War Cross. It is the only section of the three which is equipped with other than Ford cars and has several Flats in service...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and in the Law School or for the Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarship which was founded by Miss Maria Whitney to aid meritorious students in the study of field geology or geography in the summer months.--preferably in the mountain region of the Western United States...
Miss Wyman and Mr. Brockway, who have visited the Kentucky mountain region for the purpose of becoming familiar with its folk songs, gathered their ballads direct from the people themselves, and have reproduced them true to the life with all of the rough and simple mountain spirit. Their collection of ballads was published in 1916, entitled "Lonesome Tunes: Folk Songs from the Kentucky Mountains...
...tabulation. The annual sales of the firms furnishing the figures range from about $180,000 to about $8,000,000. These firms are located in thirty-one states and Canada; thirty-seven in the east; thirty-three in the south; twenty-seven in the middle west; three in the mountain states; six in the Pacific Coast states, and two in Canada...
...Italian defeat is momentarily assuming graver proportions. With a hundred thousand prisoners taken, and most of the difficult mountain country already passed, there is a lively danger of the fall of Udine, and with this the capture of the Third Army across the Isonzo. Not since the days of the great German advance of August 1914, have the Allies been confronted with so serious a crisis. For should a catastrophe take place, then the way will lie open for the Germans to seize the rich Lombard plain, capture new ports for submarine bases on the Mediterranean, and even menace France...