Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treacherous col and beyond the party must climb to try to establish camp at 27,800 ft. Once there, they have two choices. They can mount the pinnacle by way of the notorious First & Second Steps, the latter of which rises smooth and sheer for 100 ft. like a battle-cruiser's bow. Or they can follow a long band of rocks skirting the summit and leading to a long, shallow couloir which points straight up the face to the top. George Leigh Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine are thought to have climbed the First Step before they...
...three-day session, about four times as many as last year. Indeed, the conference had to be transferred from the Dearborn Inn to the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. Next to Henry Ford, the most distinguished guest was Heber J. Grant, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "I am here to learn," said that venerable Mormon leader...
...collapses. Simmons stock plummeted from $188 per share in September 1929 to $11 in 1930. The insolvency record of the furniture industry went from 79 manufacturers with total liabilities of $3,710,000 in 1929 to 143 manufacturers with liabilities of $11,223,000 in 1932. Included in the latter figure was Berkey & Gay, which closed down its plants in 1931, went into receivership in February...
Theses for honors must be either original "lab" experiments or "library" theses. The latter are not highly respected by the Department, while the pressure of "lab" problems accentuates the need for a laboratory designed for biochemists and not for the parent divisions...
...Division of Semitic Languages is not threatened by the plan for a new Division of Oriental Languages. The statement in Monday's CRIMSON that the new Division Oriented Languages, (in which there will be the then Department of Semitic Languages and History), will in any way absorb the latter is "an absurdity, a mistake, and a misstatement...