Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phantom, in the gray light of morning walks a French soldier. With a bayonet slung determinedly over his shoulder, past a narrow bridge leading across to Germany, he walks back and for the, back and forth. A large truck rumbles cup to him stops, and two men in uniform climb out, dragging machine guns after them...
Most amazing feature of the Giants' climb this season has been the fact that it exactly reverses their procedure in 1934 and 1935, when they had long early-season leads, slumped in September. What started the climb was possibly a system instituted by Manager Bill Terry whereby a batter got a $2 prize if he delivered a hit when one was needed, a $2 fine if he failed...
...anniversary this year is the job of its big, shrewd, bumptious Mayor Gerald Gratton ("Gerry") McGeer. An Irish Protestant lawyer and one-time iron molder, Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys who profit out of a Depression are the gang who are pleased to call themselves financiers. . . . The wages of money have risen while the wages of men have gone down...
...springboard turned out to be an ordinary plank, instead of the special article called for by A. A. U. regulations. Swimmers were even more horrified to find the pool full of screaming children who, on the hottest day in New York's history, showed no inclination whatever to climb out and let the experts in. When the children were finally shunted to one side, the crowning absurdity was revealed. The pool was only three-feet deep instead of the Olympic standard of five. Long-armed swimmers, usually the ablest, who tried to do the crawl scraped their fingernails...
Tourists taking the new road face a long, slow climb from the Rio Grande to the great plateau which fills the centre of Mexico. First real town is famed old Monterrey, scene in 1846 of one of the greatest battles of the U. S.-Mexican War, now the centre of Mexican industry. At Ciudad Victoria the tropics really begin...