Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SEVENTH HEAVEN?Illustrating the joys of a literal ascent from the sewer to the gutter. Its seventh heaven is only the top floor of a tenement from which Helen Menken succeeds in driving out the angel of darkness...
...order to present his lecture with the utmost vividness, Mr. Mallory will present a series of stereopticon views made from actual photographs taken while the ascent was in progress...
...George Liegh Mallory, a leader of the Mt. Everest expedition, will talk on "Climbing Mt. Everest" in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The lecture will be illustrated throughout by a series of photographs taken during the ascent. Since last October Mr. Mallory has been speaking before immense audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. The lecture will be held under the joint auspices of the Union and the Harvard Travellers Club. This club was founded about 15 years ago by graduates of the University, its purpose being to encourage travel and exploration...
...Climbing Mount Everest" will be the subject of his lecture, which will be illustrated by a series of stereoptican views made from actual photographs taken while the ascent was in progress...
...tell of their find near Machu Picchu made us eager to see the site ourselves. I shall pass over our Journey up the Urubamab canyon, and our discoveries at the foot of the mountain, interesting though they are, until our specialist, Don Calvo, has made fuller reports. Our ascent was made with some difficulty largely because of the debris of centuries...