Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most dangerous and exhilarating sport in the world. To a climber of the towering Himalayas, it is chiefly dangerous. Above the Alpine altitudes, the rarefied atmosphere brings on an overwhelming lassitude and an indifference to danger. Such a fate may well have overcome Britain's George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine, when the swirling mountain mists cut them off from view in 1924 as they struggled up the last 1,000 feet of towering, forbidding Mt. Everest.* Why do men tackle a forbidding mountain? Mallory had his own understated explanation: "Because it's there...
...Best Actress Vivien Leigh, for her playing of a faded nymphomaniac in Warner's A Streetcar Named Desire...
Leverett House: Students who wish to interview members of the House Staff should call at the House Office, 25 DeWolfe Street, Today: Leigh Hoadley, Master, and Louis G. Pamplume from 4 to 6 p.m., and Frank R.N. Gurd and Robert E. Rockman from...
Housemaster Leigh Hoadley--the most enthusiastic Leverett supporter--credits the ebullient Staley with much of the renewed interest in athletics. A second year law student, Staley will direct the Green again this fall...
...Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh set some of the sharpest prose in the modern theater against some of the greatest poetry of all time when they opened in the two plays...