Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Costes raged and rushed to Le Bourget field outside Paris. Mechanics warned him that his motor was not in perfect tune, No matter; he would go. And as night set in he pulled his controls. The motor stuttered yet lifted him clear of the ground in a slow ascent. He barely cleared some telegraph wires, a village church steeple. At Bondy Forest, only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground...
...minority leader Mr. Garrett is young, comparatively. Of his 53 years, 24 have been spent in the House, in laborious ascent through his party organization. A tall stooping man with hollow eyes, a face almost cadaverous, a melancholy voice, he is a devoted lover of the past...
...Underhill Ph.D. '16 will speak on the ascent of the three Courmeyeur ridges of Mont Blanc at a dinner of the Harvard Mountaineering Club at the Harvard Union tomorrow night at 6.30 o'clock. Dr. Underhill is the first American to have climbed these three ascents, notorious for their length and difficulty, and which only one other man has ever surmounted. Other members of the Club will show slides and motion pictures at the dinner, tickets for which may be obtained from the secretary at 57 Westmorly Hall...
...seems nevertheless to have left a suggestion to his posthumous flock in Tennessee: "The whole progress of nature is so gradual, that the entire chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among...
...Odell, a member of former expeditions to Mt. Everest and at present Lecturer in Harvard University, will accompany the showing of the ascent of Grepon at the Union Sunday night, by an explanation of the technique and skill involved in rock climbing as the picture progresses. Grepon is considered the most difficult ascent in Chamonix and these pictures were taken especially for instruction in the art of mountain climbing...