Word: montes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mountain climbing came into its own 98 years ago, thanks largely to a London physician named Albert Smith who could not keep his enthusiasm to himself. Among the first ever to scale white-domed Mont Blanc, the highest (15,781 ft.) of Alpine peaks, Smith produced a play based on his trek. It was no great shakes as drama, but it caught on like the Wild West shows in the U.S., ran six years in London, and gave people who had never seen a mountain the urge to climb...
...Swiss mountains 75 climbers had died (against 14 last year). Fifty had been killed in France, 28 of them on Mont Blanc and its neighboring ridges alone...
Depositor. In Great Falls, Mont., hospital attendants, after looking high & low for the rare type of blood needed to give Jacob Dirkes an emergency transfusion, found that the only pint available was the one that Dirkes had donated a few days before...
...First two: Linden, Mass., Trembles, Mont...
Hearth & Home. In Seattle, Mrs. Mary K. Buckley won a divorce after testifying that her husband seldom got out of bed after his discharge from the Army last year except for occasional visits to the liquor store. In Hamilton, Mont., dismissing the divorce suit of Alva Palin, who had charged his wife with beating him up, District Judge C. E. Comer declared: "Slight acts of violence by the wife from which the husband can easily protect himself do not constitute cruelty...