Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who climb to high places have a toilsome journey. One slip of the foot, as on a drop of oil, may cause the climber to lose in one day what he has gained in many months of effort. All aspirants for the Presidency were disturbed more or less last week by the slippery climbing...
...have strong reasons to believe" says the former Mayor, "that in the South Sea Islands there are fish that come out of the water, can live on land will jump three feet to catch a grasshopper and actually climb trees, and I figure that pictures of fish climbing trees ought to be profitable." Accordingly, he has organized the South Sea Research Company...
...Christmas vacation there will be a meeting of the University and 150-pound crew men at which a plan for a light form of exercise three days a week will be inaugurated. Before he left for Oregon Coach Stevens was considering having a run to Soldiers Field with a climb on the Stadium stairs each afternoon to develop the wind and leg muscles...
...training which will keep the squad in condition during the winter. The men who are not out for another sport are to be divided into groups of ten, headed by a captain. These groups will run for twenty minutes three times a week with perhaps a ten minute climb on the Stadium stairs as a finisher. This plan has been used in other universities and has proved itself highly successful. Also the boathouse and tank will be open every day to any of the men who care to use them. This form of exercise however will not be compulsory. Coach...
...content with holding the world's speed record, Lieutenant A. J. Williams achieved the world's climb record in his famous racer- rising Iike a rocket to a height of 5,000 feet in one minute...