Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furnish contacts she then corrals an equal number of foreign students. Ostensibly the Union is devoted to a serious eight-week study of international relations. But Mrs. Hadden, who is thought frivolous by many of her serious-minded charges, provides a breath less round of teas, receptions, dinners, mountain climbs, trips to Italy or Ger many. This year she has raised enough money to house her Union in a new villa in the shadow of the League's new Palais des Nations...
Last week Editor Ansley sent his "Z's" to the printer. True to his word, he had crammed a goodly amount of the world's knowledge into one fat volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time...
Died. Annie Smith Peck, 84, teacher, author, lecturer, alpinist; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Onetime professor of Latin at Smith College, Miss Peck gave up teaching for mountain-climbing at 45, was known at 60 as the world's No. 1 woman alpinist, climbed Mt. Madison...
...China, 2) temporary dislocation of the Mexican banking system, 3) enrichment of a number of speculators at home & abroad, 4) accumulation of an enormous hoard of bullion which the Treasury may never be able to sell and 5) booming bar trade in all the mining camp saloons of the Mountain States...
...grandfather. Louis Philippe, the "Bourgeois-King'' of France, had no liking for display, became known as the worst-dressed monarch of modern times. In the early years of his reign he inaugurated colonial reforms, associated with Socialist politicians, granted universal suffrage, was considered a scholar and mountain climber who was always badly in need of a haircut...