Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause of the disaster was not clear. The party were two weeks behind their schedule. The period of favorable weather was nearing its end. The time of violent monsoons was at hand. The North Col was encircled by ice cliffs that break off suddenly and plunge into the abyss. A gale or an avalanche? Failing lungs? Or freezing cold? The world waited breathless for the final word...
Since then, however, official dispatches from Lieut. Col. E. F. Norton, the new leader, have been published by The London Times and The New York Times. Written from the base camp on Rongbuk Glacier, May 18, they gave no intimation that members of the party had any immediate likelihood of attaining the peak. Indeed, tentative starts by two parties which had established advance camps were ruined by frightful storms, temperatures of 22 degrees below zero, injuries, illness, death among the native helpers and the latters' fear and reluctance to go on. At the time of the dispatch, the whole...
...prominence in and around Boston will present five minute sketches of the major possibilities for the Democratic nomination in which they will cover the candidates' qualifications for office and a summary of their life's business and political achievements. Col. Gaston will introduce each of the champions to the radio audience...
...Col. Harvey needs no introduction to the American reading public. Signal as were his achievements in the field of diplomacy, it is as a journalist that he is best known to his countrymen. Successively staff-member of the Springfield Republican and Chicago Daily News; Managing Editor of The New York World [at 27]; President of Harper & Bros, and editor of Harper's Weekly; editor and publisher of the North American Review; editor and publisher of Harvey's Weekly, briefly epitomizes his journalistic career...
Letters endorsing the scheme were received from Col. E.M. House, Newton D. Baker, Edward W. Bok, Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Dr. Kenneth C.M. Sills, President of Bowdoin College; Dr. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Dr. W.H.P. Faunce, President of Brown University; William Marshall Bullitt...