Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slope of the great granite dome of Malindizimu, the Queen found the going too heavy for her smooth-soled shoes. Princess Elizabeth promptly offered the Queen her low-heeled footgear; the Princess continued the ascent in stocking feet (Nylons, size...
Summer vacation will find the Harvard Mountaineering Club in the midst of an active schedule of climbs, featuring an ascent of Mount McKinley, led by H. Bradford Watson, Jr. '33, the Club's newly-elected executive board has announced...
...myriads who may have attempted the ascent, Professor Toynbee distinguishes 26 civilizations. Of these there are only five active survivors: 1) Western civilization (Western Europe, the British Commonwealth, the U.S., Latin America); 2) Orthodox Christian civilization (Russia and the Orthodox sections of southeastern Europe); 3) Islamic civilization; 4) Hindu civilization; 5) Far Eastern civilization (China, Korea, Japan). Of these five, four show signs of imminent exhaustion, and the fifth, Western civilization, is breathing heavily...
...climbing higher, he would see below a paralyzing panorama of desolation. Must he join it too? How much longer can he keep going? What is the state of Western civilization? How firm is its grip upon the rocks which can kill more easily than they can help his ascent...
...long production saga of the elder Holabird includes a spectacular 1940 production of "the Ascent of F-6," by Auden and Isherwood, in which all the seats in Sanders pit were torn out to provide for the construction of a manmade mountain...