Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wiry, long-headed people of the late Stone Age who gave way to the metal-wielding Gauls. They buried or cremated their dead and the stones evidently served some ritual or memorial purpose. Last month Professor Andre Guenin, cataloguing Brittany's megaliths, took the trouble to climb a 100-ft. butte ten miles from Carnac, found an unknown group of monuments including an elliptical cromlech and five dolmens, three of them almost perfectly preserved. One immense dolmen consisted of 19 pillars covered by five table stones. Professor Guenin found traces of a campsite, started digging for human remains...
Apparently the thieves picked the lock of the door leading from the balcony of the main room to the tower. From there a considerable climb up rickety ladders leads to the under side of the deck where the bell hangs. At that point a heavy cover over the hatchway leading to the deck is fastened down with two padlocks. These gave way to a hack-saw, providing access to the bell deck...
...spread his arms and legs, felt the air sustain him. Like a spread-eagled bat he slanted steeply downward, getting the "feel" of his wings. Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop. Then he zoomed left & right, leveled off, dived, pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from his starting point. His flight had lasted 75 seconds. Next time he will use bigger wings, fasten a tank of smoke-producing chemicals...
...later, won over by Shirley, turns up with a horse pistol just in time to save the Yankee's life and property. The only thing in the show which did not come out of the Ark is Negro Bill Robinson's dancing. He does his celebrated "Climb-the-Stairs" routine and contributes the finest butler's walk that ever reached the screen...
...raise an 85 foot ladder in any desired direction, thanks to its 200 horse power Hercules engine. "One beauty of the hydraulically operated ladder," explained an elderly looking fireman, "Is that a man can perch out on the end of it before it is raised and save himself the climb...