Word: ascent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...McGill's ascent into a first-place tie with Toronto in the International Division and Princeton's 12-1 victory over Yale were twin highlights of the International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League competition last week. McGill turned back one of the chief rivals for the crown it is defending, Queens University, 7 to 3, while Princeton scored its first triumph in Quadrangular League play and its second in greater-league competition by turning in the highest score made in the circuit this season...
...Barbacena it began the laborious ascent of the single-track over the Manti-queiras. Near the town of Stio came catastrophe. Again, someone had blundered, for thundering down the mountain through signals came a heavily laden freight. Headlight to headlight the roaring freight and the snorting passenger train met. They disintegrated over the grade like kindling. Soon fire crackled through the broken sticks and torn bodies...
Holding his listeners spellbound, Washburn spent the greater part of his hour and three quarters relating the story of last summer's ascent of two hitherto unclimbed peaks, Mount Saint Agnes and Mount Sanford. Still photographs, movies, and colored slides accompanied the talk and added much clarity to his vigorous explanations...
...Mass; the composer must have been living in a world apart while writing what is generally considered to be one of his greatest works. Perhaps its most impressive feature is the smooth, unified flow of his music as it passes rapidly from mood to mood, from the mighty, dramatic ascent of the Credo to the sweet simplicity of the Sanctus. This composition is essentially one of strongly contrasting moments, and Dr. Koussevitzky's very vigorous interpretation seems to us ideal, without any undue exaggeration of the powerful passages. After all, this work, deeply religious as it is, certainly was never...
...high point of his African mountain climbing was a six-day ascent of the mysterious Ruwenzori Range in Uganda, anciently called the Mountains of the Moon, which had been climbed successfully only twice since Stanley discovered them in 1888. One of the eeriest regions known to man, the upper slopes of Ruwenzori "comprise a world of their own-a weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori...