Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monstrous, imperturbable tooth of granite, nearly six miles high, encased in everlasting ice, seneschaled by all the elements, Everest has again taken its revenge on the puny mortals who ceaselessly aspire to scale it. Two more sturdy Anglo-Saxons have tasted the displeasure of the ancient mountain. And the third Mt. Everest expedition, like the second and the first, has ended in failure...
...cause of the disaster was not clear. The party were two weeks behind their schedule. The period of favorable weather was nearing its end. The time of violent monsoons was at hand. The North Col was encircled by ice cliffs that break off suddenly and plunge into the abyss. A gale or an avalanche? Failing lungs? Or freezing cold? The world waited breathless for the final word...
Near St. Mark's is Luchow's restaurant. Last week it was the scene of a great dinner-mock turtle soup, roast chicken, ice cream. Among the diners, besides Bishop Manning and several judges, were "The Millionaire Kid," "Sam the Scratcher," "Hotel Bill," "Little Gyp" and their friends. They are members of the Marshall Stillman Movement-all of them bad men and bad women who, in spite of having gone to prison, have decided to go straight. They presented the Bishop with $100, every dime of which had been collected from people whose Vater-land had once been...
...women, mock turtle soup, roast chicken, ice cream...
...normal of between 1.94 and 1.98 to 1.90 in the past two years. This has lowered the temperature of the open oceans all over the world about 4½ degrees F. If this heat loss should become only twice as great, it is estimated that the permanent polar ice cap would descend over the subarctic and upper temperate zones. Canada would, become almost uninhabitable. Climates everywhere are now upset. Drought is threatening in India and California. These changes in the solar constant appear to move in cycles of about three years. Whether they have any relation to the sun spots...