Word: elevation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that indicate the onset of CO2 giddiness. So they would have more time to do something about it. Aside from advantages in regard to the bends and CO2, Dr. Balke found that his volunteers, after conditioning, had a higher tolerance for oxygen shortage than at their San Antonio base (elev. 761 ft.). This meant that they could work efficiently at a consistently higher altitude. Furthermore, they could go still higher for emergency periods without ill effects...
...Barnwell, the C.O., "is grammar. We don't burden the student with masses of rules and exceptions. Our big ambition is to make a man speak and understand." The speaking begins right in the first class. "Are you a student?" a Danish instructor will demand. "Ja, jeg er elev" [Yes, I am a student], the class must learn to answer. "Is he a student?" asks the instructor. "Ja, han er ogsaa." A class may consist of only one student, is never larger than eight. The men average 30 hours in class and 15 at outside study a week...
...when Dr. Shultz got the call: five-year-old Sara Sharr had been kicked in the head by a mule at Golden Trout Camp, 10,000 feet high in California's Sierra Nevada range. That was 25 roadless miles from the doctor's office in Lone Pine (elev. 3,728 ft.). No plane could land near the camp. Nothing to do but pack in. At 3 :30, Dr. Shultz set out on horseback, with a mule carrying a stretcher, an instrument bag and plasma...
Naked & Alone. Washington's Mount Adams was his first love and "its memory has been the most haunting of all." At five, young Douglas was standing choked with tears at the new grave of his father, a Presbyterian minister, when he happened to notice mighty Mount Adams (elev. 12,307 ft.) in the distance. His tears stopped; from that moment "Adams subtly became a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength...