Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao was beautifully married. It took four days. On her way up Annam's great mandarin road along the coast she stopped off to climb a mountain and drink of the "frozen spring." Outside Huê, a cavalcade of palace mandarins on short native Phu-Yen horses met her in the Valley of Clouds and escorted her through the three walls of the Red City into the Palace of Passengers. Next day, dressed in a great brocaded Annamite gown, she stepped into an automobile and was driven to the Emperor's Palace, followed...
...this is going to help the Nation back on its feet is hard to determine, but it has always happened that when the United States has started to climb out of a depression an outbreak of strikes has occurred. It happened in 1879 and again in the '90's and only the Government by the use of troops was able to quell the disturbances. The right to strike is sacred to workmen...
...Oppermann women, one was married to a well-to-do German-Jew who had taken U. S. citizenship, the other to a Christian of good family. Martin, a solid businessman, had also married a Christian; his only son Berthold was the family pride. When the Nazis began their climb to power the Oppermanns saw that the anti-Jewish propaganda might have some temporary effect on business. First storm-warning was the advent of a new master at Berthold's school, famed both for its sound scholarship and liberal atmosphere. The new master, a Nazi, disapproved of liberalism, disliked Jews...
...there is a broad white line. If a runner on the outside track steps on the line he is automatically disqualified. The curves on the track are banked sharply very much like a railroad track. A man running the outside lane of the outer track will be obliged to climb four feet every time he goes around a curve...
...suggestions of his colleagues, especially Colleagues Couch and politically important onetime Senator Elaine. He humbly accepted and executed the gold-buying program of his President's Professor Warren. Never does he talk big, like his fellow titan General Johnson, well knowing that lest some upstart Jack arise to climb a beanstalk of prejudice and perhaps calumny, the RFC had best be known as a gentle giant...