Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...High in the Himalayas above the Nepal-Sikkim border, members of an expedition led by Britain's Dr. Charles Evans (a veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...
...Ryan Aeronautical Co. It would provide an excellent target for antiaircraft guided missiles, which have been trying their electronic tricks on slow-flying drones or even floating parachutes. Such tests are no tests, says Ryan. A missile should not be trusted for defense against enemy bombers unless it can hunt down and destroy an airplane at least as fast as the Firebee. No U.S. missile, says Ryan, has proved this...
...ignore the fact. Lewis Carroll never reconciled himself to Tenniel's drawings for Alice in Wonderland, which seem so right as to be almost inevitable. Tennyson, who did not care for art, was simply indifferent to the best efforts of Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt to illustrate his poems. William Thackeray, Edward Lear and W. S. Gilbert were better pleased, for they illustrated their own work...
Speaking before the group assembled in Hunt Hall. President Pusey said: "When I first arrived here. I was distressed to find that so few faculty members, especially the young instructors, actually lived in Cambridge. I think we lose a great deal when our faculty gets spread out over a wide area. Our hope is that we can use this land as a way to help some faculty live close...
Yale overcame a six-point deficit in what it had billed as "the rugby championship of America" to beat the Crimson 13-6 at the Fairfield County Hunt Club Saturday. It was Yale's first intercollegiate victory of the season...