Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Climb. After seven years, Ethel Andrus can claim credit for other accomplishments. Largely through the efforts of the N.R.T.A., California has raised its benefits from $60-odd a month to $170; Alabama's are up from $28 to $43; New York's from $90 to $176, and Indiana's are up a flat 10%. All in all, the national average has climbed slowly but steadily-from $885 a year...
...Given a monkey and an equivalent weight, one at each end of a rope running frictionless over a pulley attached to the ceiling, what would happen if the monkey tried to climb up the rope...
There it remained at week's end. The students, injured in pride and empty of pocket, prepared to climb El Plomo in search of more buried treasure. But Dr. Fuenzalida had no chance to relax among his stuffed animals. At the other end of town, the director of the National Historical Museum plunged into the row, loudly proclaiming: "That mummy, or whatever it is, should be in this museum and nowhere else! The law says that everything pertaining to Chilean man belongs here." The battle of the body, it seemed, was not yet over...
Championships in wrestling and swimming enabled Eliot House to climb from last place to third during the winter season. The Elephants won 521 1/2 points during the past four months, two and one half more than Dunster...
...India's touchy Premier Nehru, through his West Bengal branch office, a fine chance to show his pique over U.S. military aid to Pakistan. Somewhat bruised from his first experience as a political football, Tenzing moaned to Ambassador Allen: "If I know make this much, trouble, I never climb Everest...