Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flash and luster which made it the envy of the whole department. Whiskers slept in the big truck and never missed an alarm-even though he often had to gallop back from nearby meat shops when the gong began to clang. When he got to the fire, Whiskers would climb ladders and dash eagerly into burning buildings...
...tangible evidence to this fact piled up rapidly. In the four years after Wallace had started to print original articles, Digest circulation shot from 449,666 to 2,469,527, a fantastic climb in a depression. By 1939, the Digest had outgrown all the vacant offices in Pleasantville. Wallace built a $1,500,000 red brick Georgian headquarters near Chappaqua, a few miles north of Pleasantville. But he kept the old mail address; Pleasantville sounded more like the Digest's right address...
...modem aircraft climb toward the stratosphere, oxygen masks and pressurized cabins become a necessity. The trouble is that now & then something goes wrong with the man-made atmosphere. And one of the first symptoms of hypoxia (insufficient oxygen)* is a giddy self-assurance, a fine feeling that all's right with the world. Many unexplained crack-ups may have been caused by pilots in euphoria, blissfully unaware that their skill and judgment were failing with their failing oxygen...
...cold, thin air, high over Britain's Severn River one day last week, a sleek ground-attack fighter zoomed through its paces. Its twin jets roaring at full power, the sturdy Gloster Meteor suddenly whipped up into a vertical climb. Slowly its speed dropped off until, just before it stalled, the pilot cut the power in his port engine. Like a great, improbable pinwheel, the plane revolved through a tight circle (see diagram). Three-quarters of the way around, the pilot cut the power in his starboard engine. Momentum kept the Meteor revolving until it completed a turn...
...rainswept runway at Toronto's Downsview Airport, a stubby little blue-grey plane took off after a 500-ft. run and nosed upward into a steep climb. It turned back over the field at 170 m.p.h., did tight circles and vertical banks. Then the pilot cut his speed to a plodding 55 m.p.h. and drifted over, waggling his wings to show his control of the aircraft even on the brink of a stall. At the landing, the brakes stopped the plane within 500 feet...