Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the newest monthly index showed a climb of 0.6%, its biggest jump in months. Rents and food were up; so was clothing...
...that they should not be too hard on Europe in their demands for rearmament. He compared Europe's position to that of an injured mountain climber, who has just reached the stage of throwing away his crutches. Then, all of a sudden, he is told that he has to climb a further mountain. He will go out and do all he can, but that will not be as much as before the accident. "He needs a stronger rope and a friend's arm to make the necessary effort...
Legend has it that shortly after that founding of the Club, President Lowel received a call from a perturbed office of Yale, who demanded explanation Lowell gave him a farsighted reply "Young men climb mountains," he said "young men sail boats, Why shouldn't young men fly airplanes...
Bruce Munro has not yet solved his center forward problem, but at least his varsity soccer team has won its second game. The Crimson booters beat a scrappy and skillful M.I.T. eleven 3 to 1 yesterday on the Business School Field to climb back to a 500 average...
...evening last week a woman clerk, who had just started home after her day's work at a San Gabriel, Calif, supermarket, saw a frightening apparition climb out of an automobile at the rear of the store. Its face was covered by a black mask, dark goggles and a gas respirator. It wore a black helmet decorated by three metal antennas and a skull & crossbones, was dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black boots and black gloves. It carried a shotgun, wore two bone-handled .38s on its hips and a bandoleer of shotgun shells...