Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is well enough, but such early rattling of campaign machinery is dangerous. Just as Democratic lemon-squeezing is premature, so is a Republican jamboree untimely. Before this, early campaigns have burst into bloom and have been nipped by a frost. If "the boys" climb aboard the Elephant and start lumbering down the race-track now, they may reach the finish before the judges have entered the stand. Then all the brave pageant will be turned to ridicule...
...Heffernan flew in a DH-4B plane from Columbus, N. M., to Fort Bliss, Texas, a distance of 75 miles, in eighteen minutes. During the flight, which was aided by a follow-ing wind, the plane was surrounded by clouds of dust, out of which it was unable to climb...
...fair game for the student whose home is removed, perhaps by thousands of miles from the field of action? How much better equipped for the struggle is the contestant who when the becomes physically incapacitated can climb a street car and reach his home within a few minutes! Not only does the contestant laboring under unfavorable conditions needlessly suffer from physical disabilities resulting from lack of proper medical care, but must in addition sacrifice valuable time which he should devote to his studies. Has not the time come that the obsolete medical system be supplanted by more modern equipment...
...lecture Mr. Mallory will tell the complete story of the expedition that reached the unprecedented altitude of 27,235 feet above sea level, a height only 1700 feet below the summit. During the climb vast snow plains and glaciers were crossed through blizzards of snow and hail. One avalanche that swept down the mountainside carried several of the Hindu helpers into deep crevasse to instantaneous death...
Facing the Union Boat Club, the league leaders and last year's champions, at the University Squash Racquets Building this afternoon, the University squash racquets team will try to redeem an unsuccessful season and climb from last place in the league. Although the Boat Club has won all three matches before and is a favorite for this afternoon, the Crimson players, with a reorganized team, have hopes of victory...