Word: footholds
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...concerns a middle-aged Manchester merchant who is threatened with paralysis. Determined not to live in half measures and die a lingering death, he hurries to Switzerland while his resolution is still high, there to climb his favorite mountain by an almost impossible route. If he should slip a foothold, or lose his ice-axe, while making every honest effort to climb, it would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from above...
...teams of the past few years. Rising from the uncertainty of a mediocre season, it outplayed at every angle a Blue team stamped as immeasureably its superior by those who know. While the annual series is only just begun, the Harvard team has gained the psychological advantage in a foothold from which it will be dislodged with difficulty...
Early in 1928, Manufacturers' Trust, which had gained control of the 116-year-old Bank of America, sold control to the A. P. Giannini interests, giving A. P. Giannini a Wall Street foothold. On Oct. 1, 1928, Manufacturers' Trust had resources of $356,000,000; deposits...
...started at 10 p. m., as I had determined to use the moon and climb all night. . . . We dispensed with a lantern, Hans helping me admirably, with knee and shoulder, and guiding my metal peg to its foothold with the precision of a chess player moving a pawn. We . . . arrived upon the summit at 7:30 a. m. . . . Then came the long terrors of the grim descent-always worse than the ascent for the legless man ... it was over at last...
...which bear at least a family resemblance to the denizen of Sever and Harvard; and just at this time particularly, when he is girding up his loins and preparing to take to the road again, the news that the institution of vagabonding has become contagions, and is gaining a foothold both at Smith College and the University of Oregon, comes as a gratification and an encouragement...