Word: plateau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is, on the Andean plateau in Peru, a standard-gauge railroad owned by an American mining company (Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp.) connecting their camps with the main line of the Central Railway of Peru at Oroya...
...putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite as serious, "Bawby" started the tournament proper by playing four holes steadily and, at the 530-yard fifth hole, putting his second shot on the edge of the huge plateau green. Peering off at the cup about 40 yards away, he said: "This is the longest putt I ever had to make." He sank the putt...
...radio set, that he was alive. One message was broadcast from the headwaters of the Roosevelt River ("River of Doubt"). Five weeks ago, Commander Dyott arrived in Manhattan with a photographic record which substantiates the late Theodore Roosevelt's charting of this 900-mile river, running from the Brazilian plateau into the Madeira River, tributary of the Amazon. He saw stone markers which had been left by the Roosevelt expedition...
Amid green meadows, but perched atop a small plateau lies the Capital City of Luxembourg, seat of that pastoral realm, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany, populated by 200,000 sturdy folk of such mixed Teuto-Latin strain that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing...
Dwellers on the world's flattest continent prepared excitedly last week for a great moment now imminent in their history, the opening of a capital city closely patterned on, but designed to eclipse, Washington, D. C. On a high plateau, equidistant between Sydney and Melbourne, the new capital of Australia has risen, after six years of labor by 3,000 men and more than a decade of intensive planning. Australians, who number less than six million, pronounced last week, with a sense of awful achievement the name of their new Federal Capital, "CANBERRA...