Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These unearthly creatures burrow into the dark recesses under, above, behind the visible serenity of the place, and turn switches, open and shut valves, carry around bulky objects and do all manner of queer things. They seem to know what they are doing, and there must be some system or order to their efforts, for the results are surprising...
...afternoon sees the Harvard hockey squad working out on a vast sheet of ice, and on the same evening enormous flood lights show great banks of faces gathered around the squared circle of the prize ring...
...Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while the older guide ascended to the next ledge or resting place. This he did by taking a turn of the line around a rock. In one instance while the leader was ascending, the rope kept paying out as it should and the guide disappeared out of sight above the two followers. Suddenly a large rock fell past them, clearing the face of the cliff by five or six feet and a moment later...
...like it, I might as well admit that well--I like it. It's what I've been shooting at ever since I was a Freshman, and though of course I suppose we thought more about this thing than, well, than anything else around college, just the same I was surprised to be elected Most Careful Greeter. There are lots of others...
Fairchild Airplane Mfg. Corp New York, N. Y. / Fairchild / Cabin Monoplanes / . . . . . . . $13,900-$18,000 / Collier's fight around the world...