Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bobby, the only dog (bull) ever to ascend the Jungfrau (13,669 feet) performed that feat in 1911, encouraged by the whistles of his master and mistress, le marquis et la Marquise de Charette...
Though Mount Vesuvius is ever a-seething and a-smoking, timid tourists do not fear to ascend, when told that the funicular railway is owned and run by Thomas Cook...
Such a car, tested, proved that it could ascend a 20% grade, accelerating briskly, stop in the middle of the grade, then proceed again without necessity of manual gear shifting...
...confound the blase by pointing out the fact that hope springs eternal in the human breast. Together these principles should satisfactorily establish the unique splendor of the incoming Freshman group in Harvard College. This once assumed and secure in its own virginity the Class may safely prepare to ascend the heighths. The trail is not too rocky, its slopes not too steep but what it is surmountable. And the Class of 1931 has an abundance of guides to whose sapient advice it will do well to listen...
...even begrudged little Michael inheriting the legal right to the throne. These accusations are heartlessly false. I love Helene and her child with all my heart. They have been deserted by their husband and father.* Shall I forsake them in this solemn, trying hour when Michael is about to ascend the throne? No. A queen's heart has greater love than that...