Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems," O'Brien said, "that the guide, who took the pictures, which are to be shown on Sunday, was climbing an almost perpendicular cliff on the Aiguille du Dru, which rises 12,000 feet above the Mer de Glace, in company with a young guide and an American climber. This cliff has the longest sheer drop on the mountain--perhaps 1,000 feet. The older guide who ranked as the second best in Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while...
...Brien in answer to a query about the dangers of mountain climbing and ski ascents remarked that the peak upon which the incident described above took place has received the reputation of being a bad one because of the long drop of the perpendicular cliff. The mountains which will be shown in the moving pictures are two of the best for the experienced climber. The Aiguille du Grepon is a massive rock structure that was not scaled until thirty years after the Matterhorn was conquered...
Dorothy Gish, the third name inscribed with that of Lillian, of Griffith, in the heart of the U. S. public was not the little girl who jumped over a cliff in Birth of a Nation. Many cinema fans, their memories bemused by thousands of flickering faces, have lost dollar bets on that fact. The girl who jumped over the cliff was Mae Marsh. Other bets have concerned the sisters' ages. Lillian is 32. Dorothy is 30. Just as pretty as Lillian (5 ft. 4 in. tall, red-blonde hair), cleverer perhaps, certainly shrewder, Dorothy wanted romance to be concrete...
Johnny Hayes, in 1908, ran the most exciting marathon since the one in 480 B.C., whereby Phidippides carried the news of a battle over cliff roads to Sparta. The 1908 marathon was run over English high ways from Windsor Castle past Slough, Wexham, Heath, Ruislip. Wembley, to a stadium 26 miles and 480 yards from the start. Marathon races were well-patronized then; the greatest of runners was Dorando, a confectioner from the island of Capri. Hayes was 22, the son of an East Side Manhattan Irish baker; he was 5 ft. 3 ¾ in. tall and his number...
...court has no facilities for making impartial investigations. The machinery for the administration of justice does not, and from its very nature cannot, function perfectly. In criminal cases the de- Instead of blasting off 30 feet of matrix from above the bone layer, we went half way up the cliff and arched in a hole about seven by ten feet. Then we removed the matrix down to the bones and chopped a ditch around a slab which measured a few inches larger than five by eight feet. We were very fortunate in striking an unusually thick layer of bones...