Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edouard Harriot, one of the grand old men of French politics, had come at last to the end of a political road. Weighed down by age (81) and his legs crippled by phlebitis, he could no longer climb without help to the chair of the President (Speaker) of France's Assembly. For more than a month, he did not appear at all. Last week his deputy read a message from...
...climb was the climax of a weekend of skiing and mountain climbing by the Stanford University Alpine Club. In charge was a young (21) but expert mountaineer, Jon Lindbergh, son of the famed flyer and a marine biology student at Stanford. By 12,200 ft., all except Edgar Hopf had switched to spiked crampons. He was still on skis and in the lead when he slipped and tumbled backwards...
...have something substantial to leave behind. He bought solely on intuition-shares in Southern Union Gas Co. (he happened to believe in natural gas), Pickering Lumber Corp. and Brink's. Inc. He bought some 12,000 shares of the American Furniture Mart Building Co. of Chicago, watched it climb from 37 to $12.50. By the time he died in 1951, he was the wonder of his brokers. "The old gentleman knew nothing about stocks," said one. "He bought what we call undervalued situations-a company which for some reason has fallen into disrepute temporarily, but which is fundamentally sound...
...wrote a shoddy line. On the 20th century stage, so far, only Shaw and Sean O'Casey outrank him. He failed in his ultimate goal, to go beyond the tree line of tragedy and reach the highest, noblest peaks. But few others in his day have tried to climb so high...
...captain of the 1951 Yardling football team began a slow recovery last spring with a few rounds of golf. "I surprised myself by coming back. I couldn't even climb stairs for a while," he reported...