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According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the Spaniards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INCA LEGEND PROMPTS CLIMBERS TO SCALE MOUNTAIN IN PERU | 10/2/1941 | See Source »

Basking in a comparatively southern atmosphere, the Eli sweepswingers have been in the open since March 6, and M.I.T. has already been sufficiently affected by Boston's balmy breezes to set up float stages, thus gaining a head-start on the ice-bound Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bolles Expects Open Water For Oarsmen by Next week | 3/16/1940 | See Source »

...hurler Tom Healey will too the rubber for the Crimson, and will probably share mound duties with Slim Curtiss. Both pitchers are fresh from Eastern League triumphs, and have had far more opportunity to approach mid-season form than the ice-bound Terrier flingers...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: HARD-HITTING NINE TACKLES TERRIERS | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

Arctic adventuring in a Norwegian sealing boat to the ice-bound coast of eastern Greenland was described by Lawrence Kilram '32, of the Harvard Medical School, yesterday afternoon in an illustrated lecture at the Institute of Geographical Exploration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greenland Coast Expedition Shown in Movies by Kilram | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

...spite of the warm weather during the last week, Crimson oarsmen will continue to work-out in the ice-bound Newell for another ten days. Harvard will be lucky if it has shells in use two weeks from today, although the Leviathan and a barge or two will probably be on the water next Wednesday. Shells can not be used, even after the ice breaks up, until the floating cakes and debris following the thaw have disappeared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OARSMEN ARE ICE-BOUND FOR ANOTHER TEN DAYS | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

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