Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world, he confided his ambitions. Graciously she suggested a joint concert in Cracow, at which he would play and she would appear in dramatic recitations. The concert was given. Modjeska's name on the billboards acted like magic, and Paderewski was up the first notch in his laborious climb to fame...
...point of death. After his amazing recovery he had to give up his daily constitutional in the Vatican gardens, for leg pains, which often accompany hardening of the arteries, so crippled him that he was able to walk only a few steps at a time. He could not climb stairs, had to be carried from one audience chamber to another. Shrunken and pale, with hollow cheeks, he stuck to his job until last summer when he suffered a severe attack of the cardiac asthma which had troubled him two years before...
...hands. A bellrope, extending from the Chapel tower to Ehler's room in the basement, lasts about five years on the average, and the present one, already black from glove leather, has been in use a year. In the event of a memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower and toll the bell at close quarters. Most of the time he is on duty as janitor of Matthews Hall. Asked if he had no compassion for the Freshmen who daily are so rudely jarred out of their sleep by the five minutes of continuous bell-ringing, Ehler...
After cavorting aloft for almost half an hour, the new bomber whipped low over the airport, climbed again to 3,000 feet and soared along at 300 m.p.h. Test Pilot John Cable then apparently cut one motor to try a climb on half power. Instead of climbing the ship went into a spin. John Cable bailed out at 500 feet, pulled the ripcord of his parachute too late, died on the ground. In a parking lot less than 50 feet from his body, the bomber demolished nine automobiles before it stopped...
Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, who gained fame and fortune publishing such magazines as True Story, Physical Culture, Liberty, last week produced something new: a religious monthly, Your Faith. He urged readers: "Rise out of the mire and muck of that which is base and contemptible. Climb on the bandwagon loaded with kindliness and friendliness. The brotherhood of man then smiles at you from earnest, honest eyes...