Word: clamberers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, doughty Canadian and U. S. clamberers under the leadership of Captain A. H. McCarthy, British-Columbian rancher, returned from a successful clamber to the pinnacle of Mount Logan (in the southwestern corner of the Province of Yukon, Canada...
...great yearning of Harry Wills, heavyweight Negro, to clamber into a ring with Champion Dempsey has almost been equaled in recent months by the yearning of a great portion of the fight public to see Wills do so. So far Dempsey's sagacious management has been able to sidestep. Wills and the public have waited wistfully...
...have rather prided ourselves on cur furious hospitality and careless assumption of familiarity--the traits with which Dickens drew Colonel Diver. The "man on the street" may still up-hold these traditions, but with the colleges it is apparently otherwise. The supposedly staid Cantabrigians are the ones who clamber over carriages, while with all its Americanism Harvard has never been known to cause its visitors any strain other than that upon the eardrums. In spite of the "inconvenience and embarrassment", however, over-hospitality certainly has its advantages. Admiral Sims, or any other famous American who goes to Cambridge cannot help...
...poetry of quality given us in the pages of the earlier numbers of the Magazine. We shall leave to oblivion occasional lapses into the sensational, and ventures toward the goal of publicity for publicity's sake. We shall try to forget the dying periodical's monstrously serious efforts to clamber up on a platform of representation of the University and reformation of all its faults. We shall regret that humorous appreciation of its own foibles did not come sooner to the Magazine--though we may imagine that even a faint consciousness of the ridiculous in itself might have hastened what...