Word: descents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet, Author Tilman says cavalierly that Kilimanjaro offers ''no climbing difficulties whatsoever." The great jagged tower of Mount Kenya, 17.040 feet, buttressed with ridges and festooned with hanging glaciers, was a far tougher job. On the peak experienced climbers had violent attacks of vomiting, and on the descent Tilman fell 80 feet to a rock ledge, landed physically unhurt, but with his mind wandering...
...Leuthold at once gave the order to descend. The wind was so sharp the Mazamas had to back down the draw. Ice crusted their goggles; sleet froze on their faces and clothes. After the party had reached the base of the chute, they broke strings, reassembled, continued the descent. Some of them were not dressed warmly enough for the extreme cold...
Meanwhile, Mrs. Clark made the descent safely, but Varney collapsed. Three men lashed him to a pair of skis, tried to drag his body down. As they tugged the bogging load through fresh snow, Varney's arms slowly clinched above his head, stark frozen. In the end, almost frozen themselves, the three men abandoned their clubmate, limped to safety...
...square miles of territorial pie wedged between Austria and Switzerland, is ruled by 84-year-old Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein. Last week Prince Franz must have been personally alarmed by the nearby appetite of Nazi Germany-for his wealthy Viennese wife, former Baroness Gutmann, is of Jewish descent, and much of his property is in Austria. But for his country he professed unconcern, announcing: "We have no fear regarding foreign intervention...
...President had announced his intention of selling his radio fireside chats to an advertising sponsor, it could scarcely have caused more outraged bowlings than his spring publication list. The New York Herald Tribune found it "so . . . steep a descent for a President as to give the whole nation pause." In the House, Michigan's Republican Clare E. Hoffman accused the President of "using his ... office as his advertising agency," and retaining a monopoly. Circulated in Washington was the story that when offered a fat contract for a series of daily broadcasts. John Nance Garner had replied: "What Jack Garner...