Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...health, plans were drawn to instal an elevator in the Capitol and save his crippled legs a long climb. Mrs. Roosevelt said that her chief worry was that, too busy to exercise, he would get fat and give the legs that much more to carry. As soon as his very close victory (25,000 plurality) was assured, he set out for his retreat at Warm Springs, Ga., to exercise as much as possible before inauguration...
Time graciously justified the Most Bullish Moment. General Motors did set new records, did eventually climb to a tantalizing 224⅛. But by the time the stock had reached Bull Raskob's figure, earnings had also skyrocketed. Last week, when President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. announced quarterly profits of $79,266,639, nine months' profits of $240,534,613 (record for any corporation in peace time), investors hastily calculated values. In nine months, General Motors had earned $13.42 a share. Expected earnings for the full year raised the figure close to $18. Bull Raskob's formula...
Orchards are his hobby. A few years ago he would climb nimbly up many a tree, personally inspecting branches that might need pruning. Even now, at 73, he ministers to favorite trees from the ground, with a long pruning-saw, much resembling a medieval spear. As he prowls, thus accoutred, around his excessively historic Glamis Castle, romantic persons enjoy fancying that the Earl resembles an early owner of his domain, King Macbeth of Scotland (reigned 1040-57), who, as Shakespeare has told, murdered King Duncan in Glamis Castle...
...necessary for a student to climb in a window if he returns to college after 12 o'clock. Because of this regulation, men are often found in the morning trapped in cellars and coal-bins that they entered unsuspectingly during the small hours...
Maitre Annet-Baden, Paris lawyer, drove his car up steep Montmartre. How the old machine coughed and sputtered and how slowly it proceeded! Unabashed, Maitre Annet-Baden was well pleased at its performance; for he was a competitor in a race to see who could climb the hill most slowly and he had won by going at 1 mile per hour...