Word: hike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine portrait of Sportswoman Eleonora Sears which appears in TIME, March 16. It will interest many readers. Long before the World War, Miss Sears was known as a pedestrian champion when visiting friends in California. You did not mention in your article that the aristocratic Miss Sears once hiked alone from the Burlingame Country Club to Hotel Del Monte-over 100 miles-escorted by a motorcade of sport-loving friends. It was a record-breaking hike. During the same season (about 1911) Miss Sears kept up a stable of polo ponies and rode on the polo fields around Burlingame-greatly...
...many a healthy German who saw her frequently thereafter. Some were baffled by her meaning, but her gymnastics appealed to all. prompted the vogue of Tanzgymnastik, the physical culture drive which swept Germany, made strenuous acrobatic dancing an exercise almost as common as a Sunday hike...
...government explosives plant at Nitro, Va. At University of Illinois, where he was head of the Engineering department from 1922 to 1926, he built one of the best hydraulic laboratories in the U. S. During his Iowa deanship, he built a television station. Twice married, he likes to hike with his three children, teaches a Sunday School class for Iowa freshmen. Lehigh's beer-loving students should appreciate his excellent stock of stories...
...rare cloudbursts swept down upon them, made a river of the road, forced the car to turn up a hillside, where it broke an axle. Well aware of their danger, Prospector Backert and Daughter Ernestine, 22, left Mrs. Backert, 51, and Daughter Agnes, 12, in the car, started to hike the 40 miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing a rescue party, they sped back to their car, found only a penciled note. Mother and daughter, unable after two days and nights to endure the heat any longer, had wandered off into the trackless sands in search...
Gathering his allies at Zermatt, climbing centre of the Alps, on August 1, Noel E. Odell, former Geology lecturer and member of the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition, will lead members of the Mountaineering Club in a two-weeks guideless hike over the Swiss mountains this summer...