Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of the Mountaineering Club's historic climb of Mt. Yeraphaa in Peru, including three pages of color illustrations, is the lead feature of this week's Saturday Evening Post...
Over the Crest. The track soon grew so steep that the men had to climb on their hands and knees. Only fog-filtered moonlight lit their way. Temperatures fell below freezing. By the time they reached the 10,000-ft. level, ten of the volunteers had dropped out. José Vélaz, with his grey head bare and a towel wound round his neck, pressed on through a whipping gale. At 12,000 ft., the ranger led him over a crest. Below lay the shattered fragments of the DC-3 and 31 bodies, the boys and their air crew...
Bright, 33-year-old General Manager William Zisch thought that Aerojet would now climb faster than ever. Said he: "We go into this emergency with more than 1,600 highly skilled personnel. We went into the last emergency with only five. As for our growth from here-well, five is to 1,600 as 1,600 is to X. You figure...
Fred's Diary (1921-50) is at once an abbreviated record of Bason's daily life and a rung-by-rung account of his climb to Cockney notoriety. By dint of hanging around theater exits with an autograph album and writing very polite letters to celebrities, young Fred soon got on signature terms with everyone from Arnold Bennett to George Bernard Shaw. A few literary lions headed into the deep bush when they scented Fred on their trail. Poet John Masefield, for instance, responded to Fred's advances with a "chilly" printed card, and that "awful snob...
...mankind. Kelly, who spent five years as a cartoon animator for Walt Disney, began drawing Pogo in a daily strip in 1948, while he was art director of the New York Star. After the Star folded, the Post-Hall Syndicate rescued Pogo and started him on his rapid climb...