Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only four members of the Viceregal Staff accompanied Lord Irwin. When the jungle grew too dense for horseback riding, the Viceroy cast dignity to the Himalayan breezes, and began with gusto to scramble and to climb. Leaving the jungle behind, as they ascended, the party made a rocky climb of nearly 5,000 feet to the summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where...
...every afternoon with outlandish & desperate-looking bandits wearing fuzzy chaps, huge spurs, violently colored silk shirts, ten and sometimes only five-gallon hats. These desperadoes swoop down on a drugstore-and ask for an ice cream soda. After they have mangled the straws and paid the soda-jerker, they climb on their horses and ride back to Thacher School, where they prepare for college...
...special departments the College Library has found a most effective means of avoiding congestion in its main parts. Lowell Memorial, Child Memorial, the German Library, and the other rooms that fringe the top floor of Widener, are sufficiently equipped to house the necessary books in many literature courses. The climb is long, its turns wearying: the elevator is inconveniently placed, and all too often it is in flight when most desired; but the reward is silence, less confusion, generally greater comfort than is possible in the main Reading Room. To many students the special libraries were unknown before the introduction...
...little, to support from the stands. We need action leave the inertia in the Physics laboratory, and show the boys that we are with them during this, the most crucial part of the season. Get behind the team and the team will never be behind Climb on the wagon and set sail for Cambridge on the morrow, not with an air of superiority or inferiority, but with the traditional spirit of this institution Holy Cross, win or lose, Holy Cross. Holy Cross Tomahawk
...overall length, 27 feet 9 inches; weight empty, 1,870 pounds; wing area, including ailerons, 319 sq. feet; maximum speed, 126 miles per hour; landing speed, 49 miles per hour; overall height, 9 feet 10 inches; useful load, 1,550 pounds; pay load, four passengers or baggage, 800 pounds; climb with full load from sea level, 900 to 1,200 feet per minute...