Word: footings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rotary, complete with flowers and grass, will have a 35-foot diameter. Cambridge police pointed out that it will greatly ease the flow of Massachusetts Avenue traffic as well as reduce the danger of collisions at the five-street intersection. Resurfacing work will continue down into Harvard Square...
...daring Asian climbs. The highest mountain ever scaled--Nanda Devi--fell originally to an HMC group in an ascent where the routine calamities of mountain climbing expanded into a series of near-disasters. Seven Harvard men (plus a gentleman from the Alpine Club of London) attacked the 25,600-foot "White Goddess" in 1936 and (1) ran into a glacial flood, (2) lost half of their local porters in a mass mutiny, (3) had to make six trips down a 12-mile gorge to carry in supplies, and (4) had a case of ptomaine poisoning 1000 feet from the summit...
...like a human-fly act. The mountaineer reaches two feet above his head and pulls himself up by his fingertips; he stands with one foot on an inch-wide ledge looking for another-inch-wide ledge; he jams his fist into a crack for a hold fast. From the top of the cliff another mountaineer, who has gone up the sane way, "belays" the climber with nylon rope in case he should fall. From the bottom of the cliff the rest of the party offers verbal encouragement...
...your left foot about three inches above your right shoulder...
...your foot in your mouth and spit it up to the next ledge...