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Eagle Bridge, N. Y. (pop. 300) nestles on the hard western slope of Vermont's Green Mountains just where they roll over the New York border. There 13 years ago Farmer Thomas Solomon Moses died, left the care of his 180-acre farm entirely to his widow. For frail Anna Mary Robertson Moses, running the farm was pretty hard work. Soon she found she had to rest her back. To occupy her busy fingers, Anna Moses (80) decided to take up painting...
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...death-belt consists of a few narrow valleys on the Western slope of the Andes from an elevation of 1000 to 2600 meters over an arid desolate and sparsely inhabited country. Nearly every one who spends a night here is affected a few days later with a severe anemia which often proves fatal. The red blood cell count may drop at the rate of a million...
...indicated by brick gammidae in the pavement south of Wadsworth House. Wadsworth House was built in the eighteenth century, but the presence of that old house is a reminiscence of the character of this part of Cambridge in its earliest days. The town stretched casually down the pleasant southerly slope toward the river, being divided into many individual plots. The primitive buildings have vanished, but the subdivision into numerous small plots, and the casual arrangement, still remain. President Lowell opposed the reconstruction of this area--he told me once that he preferred to have it survive as a series...
General de Gaulle took to the radio in London. "France, crushed, humiliated and betrayed, is beginning to climb once more up the slope of the abyss," he cried to the Empire. From Winston Churchill came a quick letter of assurance that French colonies who supported England's cause would receive the same trade and political concessions as British possessions. The Vichy Government denounced Britain for fostering the revolt, discharged Eboue from his governorship, declared wishfully that "all necessary dispositions have been taken to localize the situation...