Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he finally reached the mountain he sought, Frye had to climb 50 feet up the wall of a cliff to get at the inscription. Clinging to the face of the mountain, he and two native companions took impressions of the stone-writing with squeeze-paper...
Junior Fellow Richard N. Frye visited a lonely mountain in Persia this summer and came back with 800 words of ancient Pahlevi--one of the largest inscriptions ever found in the Near East...
Died. Quentin Roosevelt, 29, intense, adventurous grandson of T.R., son of the late Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; in a plane crash; near Hong Kong. An instinctive follower of his grandfather's "doctrine of the strenuous life," Quentin* explored the Sino-Tibetan mountain country at 19, joined the Army after graduating from Harvard, was wounded in action in North Africa (where he won the Silver Star and Croix de Guerre), later saw action in Sicily, Europe, China, where he became vice president of China National Aviation Corp...
Though he had studied under some of the world's greatest skiers (among them: the Austrian shepherd Anton Seelos), Emile was never quite satisfied with what he was learning. He began jotting down notes on new theories, would steal up a mountain even at night to try those theories out. Soon he had a style all his own, so fluid and effortless that in 1938 the French Ski Federation adopted it as official. It was a revolution in skiing technique. The French revolution has been spreading ever since...
...earth's substance, and Fairfield Osborn who, in Our Plundered Planet, lectured man for destroying the fertility of the land. Poet Thomas Merton, now a Trappist monk, lent poetic excitement to his autobiographical account of a worldly young pagan's conversion to Roman Catholicism, in Seven Storey Mountain. And, in a category all its own, there was Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which was a continuing bestseller in spite of its statistical dullness, and gave rise to more bad jokes and pseudoscientific claptrap than any book in recent years...