Word: clambers
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Having scaled the Wetterhorn (12,149 ft.) a fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 30), His Royal Highness declared last week that he would next clamber up the Matterhorn...
...disintegrated Washington club, American League champions for the last two years, has been barely able to clamber out of the second half of the league. The team is surfeited with old men, retaining by far the oldest aggregation in either league, their average ages being 32. The Chicago Americans are the youngest team making any showing this year. Last year's world champions, the Pittsburgh Pirates, average 29 years. Commonly supposed to be a young team, the Philadelphia Athletics are in reality far remote from puberty. Babe Adams, 44, is the oldest player in either league and still pitches...
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...