Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bull market continued to climb. The Dow-Jones industrial average last week rose 5.13 points, and closed at 337.66. To back up Wall Streeters' optimism, there were many signs of cheer...
From Alaska, George W. Argus Jr. wrote on April 14 to his parents, who run a Brooklyn bakery: he was going to climb Mt. McKinley (20,269 ft.), North America's mightiest peak, soaring upward three miles from its base. Moreover, he was going to try the formidable South Buttress. "It's as safe as walking down the street in New York," he wrote...
...wife Ginny, flying a light plane with a girl friend beside her. The four men packed 30 days' supplies on their backs, but, to save ten pounds in weight, no radio. At 10,000 ft. they ran into an ice wall, but cut hand and foot holds to climb...
...deck, but they have little fighting potential. The XFY-1 proved last week that it can rise like a helicopter. Its engine is powerful enough to pull it up vertically with the acceleration of 20 ft. per second per second. At about 500 ft. elevation, this rate of climb will give it the speed of 100 knots (115 m.p.h.). Then it will nose over and fly horizontally...
...children have had the luck to grow up amid such intellectual variety. Grandfather Richard Garnett actually lived in the British Museum, where he was Keeper of Printed Books. Father Edward, who climbed the museum roof as other boys climb trees, became one of Britain's most influential literary advisers. Mother Constance learned Russian to while away the time, soon became the foremost English translator of Russian literature. Her toughest assignment: War and Peace, from which she emerged half blind...