Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single peak, for our sole object was to locate the mountains. Some of these peaks are the most impregnable I've ever seen, and one as yet unnamed peak, over 14,000 feet high, had one absolutely vertical cliff 6000 feet high. If they ever try to climb some of these, I hope I'm not around...
...mortality and morbidity rates than persons of normal weight.'' Too many Rose Freistaters would "constitute a drain on the teachers' pension fund." Convinced that no diet could save Miss Freistater from expanding, sooner or later, to her normal 182, Board Chairman Henry Levy explained: "Teachers must climb stairs, take part in fire drills and be able to handle all real school emergencies. ..." Last week Commissioner Graves fixed Dec. 11 for a hearing on the appeal. Meanwhile Miss Freistater announced triumphantly, "I'm ready for them! I'm down in the hundred and fifties!", begged...
Determination is the chief virtue which is helping Helen Jepson to climb fast in opera. She was born 29 years ago in Titusville, Pa., where her father kept a candy and hardware store combined. Her first job was as a corset-fitter in an Akron department store. Then by selling phonograph records she became converted to opera, won a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music...
...angry bankers and no housing boom disturbed the tranquillity of the country. Henry Ford had built a million cars in the first ten months of 1935. Not one but two million shares a day were changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange and stocks after a seven-month climb were at their highest levels since the New Deal took office. Unemployment was still high, relief plans still in a muddle, but hunger marchers were nowhere. The Bonus was conceded victory in the next session of Congress. Only two disturbances loomed ahead: 1) the possibility of the Supreme Court...
Baldwin Bandwagon. In a last minute reverse and spurt to climb on the Baldwin Bandwagon, peppery Lieut. Colonel Leopold Stennet Amery, who a few days before had flayed the Prime Minister for "playing with fire" in his threat of sanctions at Geneva, rushed off to his Conservative constituency at Birmingham and went the whole hog in fulsome praise of portly Squire Baldwin whose hobby is raising pigs. All last year Colonel Amery and Mr. Churchill fought the Prime Minister from within his Party on the India Bill. "Winnie" leaped for the band wagon in plenty of time (TIME, Sept...