Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pain. Long a doctors' doctor, Dr. Libman now accepts only rare cases which other doctors refer to him. Some of his old patients, however, still climb the high stoop of his brownstone house in Manhattan's East 64th Street. Up that stoop, as patient or friend, have gone Adolph Lewisohn, Samuel Untermyer, Albert Einstein, Alexis Carrel, Sarah Bernhardt...
Taking the long view of trade prospects, most businessmen were frankly sanguine. NRAftermath jitters might deepen the current downward dip in the business curve but when recovery was resumed it would be broader and brighter. The stock-market relapse in any event was overdue after a two-month climb and was accelerated by the plight of the French franc (see p. 19). The fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty...
Born in Manhattan of impoverished musical parents. Artist Kroll used to haunt the old red brick & granite Metropolitan museum as a child. Not until he was about 12 did he get nerve enough to climb the stairs past the dusty plaster casts of the ground floor to the paintings on the floor above. The Metropolitan was a far different place then from the great treasure house that it has since become, but it had Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, Meissoniers Friedland, and Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Little Leon Kroll swore that he would become a painter...
...Paul, Donald Harding, 3, climbed into an empty trolley car, swung the air brake handle, careened downhill. George Jelinek, 17, jumped on the cow catcher, broke the front window and swung the brake handle back, just as the car jumped the tracks. Only casualty: Donald Harding's mother, who cut her arm trying to climb in a side window...
Armed with ropes, sneakers, and box lunches, members of the Mountaineering Club will assemble at Johnson Gate at 9 o'clock Sunday morning for motor trip and annual climb to Joe English Hill in Southern New Hampshire...