Word: everest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...
Died. Brigadier-General Hon. Charles Granville Bruce, 73, British World War veteran, who at 56 vainly dedicated his life to scaling Mount Everest; in London. Though General Bruce's two expeditions (1922 and 1924) failed to reach the top of the 29,141-ft. Himalayan mountain, none ever climbed so high...
Like men attracted by the inaccessibility of Mt. Everest, libertarians are attracted to Jersey City, N. J.. where Mayor Frank Hague stifles any "Red" seeking to speak well in public of C. I. O. Montana's loud Representative Jerry O'Connell tried it twice in May, was scared out once, bums-rushed the next time...
...Mountain-Climber Tilman dizzied many a reader with his account of his climb, in 1936, to the summit of India's Nanda Devi (25,660 ft.), the highest mountain ever scaled by man. Last week, while Mountaineer Tilman was on his way to try another climb of Mt. Everest, he dizzied U. S. readers again, in a book that told of his slides, falls and narrow escapes in the mountains of equatorial Africa...
...Robert Patterson Houston, reputedly England's richest woman ($25,000,000); of heart disease; at Byron Cottage, Hampstead, England. A champion of British supremacy, in 1931 she gave $500,000 to enable Britain to win the last Schneider Cup Trophy air races, financed the 1933 flight over Mt. Everest, twice offered to donate $1,000,000 to strengthen the British Army & Navy...