Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divide is at these head waters, while the Continental Divide at Fortress Pass has been perplexing geologists for a number of years by its queer fluctuations. Water from the Columbia-ice fields runs to the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans. Ascending the Athabaska River the party will approach the region from the north; camp will be made and the peaks of Mount Columbia 12,295 feet high, and the North Twin 12,085 feet high, will be attempted. If the peaks are reached, it will represent the first ascents from the northern sides, which are rocky as compared...
...wholly the choice of the intelligensia (real and fancied) and has been given, of course, widest publicity by the press. Again, the game of chess has enjoyed the favor, as a rule, of those who possessed rather more of this world's (material) goods. Perhaps Mr. Banks can approach an explanation of this: he is the best chess player in this country-and perhaps in the world-among the few real masters of checkers. Checkers has been given, by the vast army of the uninformed, en aura of most ordinary simplicity-something to be patronizingly smiled upon by those...
...Burrus is a Senior at the University of Wisconsin. For three years he has played football at end for his university, and this year captains the Wisconsin crew. Moreover he has recently been elected Rhodes Scholar from the State of Wisconsin, which conveys the impression that his scholarly achievements approach his athletic record in excellence. Backed by the Wisconsin Union, Burrus writes on "The Present Intercollegiate Athletic System". After an exhaustive study of the situation he writes, "I have tried to present what I believe is the predominate attitude toward college athletics of four closely interested classes, the student...
Revere Beach has opened, and once more where the white loops of the roller coasters loar and twist against the blue carloads of well be haved citizens scream like wild-cats as they approach the appalling drop. This year, nestled among the milder attractions of hot dog stands and cherry-go-rounds, there is a new side show: for a nominal sum one may throw baseballs at a wooden door surmounting a small sliding board, and if one strikes the bullseye in the center of the door it pops open, a bell rings, a young lady in a bathing suit...
...occupied; but civil servants mostly slept at hotels after their 429-mile trip from Melbourne. Like barnyard fowls unused to migrating, which have suddenly been shooed from one coop into another, the employes of the Commonwealth of Australia were cackling many a minor protest last week; but the approach of a royal personage stilled all complaints...