Word: climb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Vagabond was a little shaver of five, he used to climb on his father's knee after supper and demand a story. Now, these many years later, the first ones he can recollect being told concerned a man who went to a strange country of Little Men. Or sometimes he went to a land of Big People. The man's adventures were all very fascinating and exciting...
...where I lie down, worn out, other men will stand, young and fresh. By the steps I have cut will they climb; by the stairs I have built will they mount. They will never know the name of the man who made them. At my clumsy work they will laugh; when the stones tumble down upon them they will curse me. But they will mount, and on MY work; they will climb, and by MY stair! They will find her [truth], AND THROUGH...
...price to $1,010. The Imperial eights ($1,198) have a new 135-h. p. motor. A "super-finish" on moving parts makes them fit to 2/1,000,000 in. Standard on the Custom job, extra on the others is the "Cruise and Climb" overdrive. Standard on all is a speedometer that sheds an approving green glow up to 30, an amber light through the 30s and 40s, a warning red over...
...plump, homey individual, as different from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...
...tube and transmitter can extend the altimeter's effectiveness to 15,000 feet. As feeler for possible obstructions dead ahead, the present 5,000-foot range would be inadequate because it would give a pilot flying three miles a minute less than 20 seconds in which to climb out of danger...