Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Numan entered the Foreign Office at Ankara in 1929 as a departmental head, foreign attaches already knew this sick young man with an abscessed lung and deficient hearing as a cold, hard, calculating bargainer. When, 22 months ago, Numan's gradual ascent up the Foreign Office ladder brought him to the top rung as Minister, no one was surprised...
Johnny Weissmuller, continuing his one-man, one-lifetime, evolutionary ascent from the cinema's ape-man to man (TIME, March 6). gave up his crowning Tarzan glory...
...friend A. J. Gregory came through with another beat the other day. Some "pal" rushed up to him just before his ascent to flickering filament and said, "I see you've got the zero to 7:30 watch next Tuesday...
...Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club is the only active college organization of its kind, with 19 years of existence to its credit. It has lately been testing climbing equipment for the U. S. Quartermaster Corps in Tuckerman's Ravine. To its credit is the ascent of Nanda Devi in the Himalayas, the highest summit yet reached...