Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Listening to the Queen's weary voice, Dutch oldsters could remember her ascent to the throne as a girl of 18. They remembered the rejoicing and feasting at her marriage with Henry Wladimir, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1901; the birth of Juliana in 1909 and that of Beatrix (oldest daughter of Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard) in 1938. Most vividly, they remembered Wilhelmina's radio broadcasts from London during the Nazi occupation, when she heartened the underground: "The Netherlands will rise again...
Bernard Baruch's cup kept right on overflowing. The American Schools and Colleges Association poured in one of its Horatio Alger Awards, for a fine ascent from a lowly beginning...
Sunapee Mountain will boast a 3,000 foot chair lift by next winter if summer construction work goes well. The development will allow slat addicts to make a 1,000-foot ascent on the north side of the mountain near Mount Sunapee Station...
Against the Wall. The vigor of M. Schuman's counterattack surprised many who had thought that Charles de Gaulle was the only strong man in France, and who were therefore expecting De Gaulle's quick ascent to power. If the Socialists stood firm behind Schuman, De Gaulle might not be needed for quite a while...
Most recent expedition to what the appetites of the Club's over upward-looking group of mountaineers was last summer's successful ascent of three-mile-high Mount St. Elias, in Alaska, the fourth highest peak in North America. On the same campaign the HMC's eight-man party under William L. Putnam '45, added twenty-one more first ascents to the Club's long list of accomplishments fifteen of them in four days of climbing...