Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps forgotten that the superannuated professors have considerably more prestige in the Literary world than he has, and, moreover, that their knowledge of literature and his own compare as the mountain and the mole hill...
...Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been in 1912 with Captain Scott. In ordinary weather the seas of the South Atlantic, with thousands of miles of unbroken run behind them, rear up like mountain ridges. But last week's storm unsettled the stomachs of all but the oldest seamen and Admiral Evans...
...feet tall, part Indian, part Spanish, he talked well, was silent better. He gathered together 800 men and declared war. Sacasa and Moncada agreed to a government compromise, but not Sandino. He dismissed all the married men in his army and went to the hills. He called his favorite mountain El Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy...
...team came in fourth in class 2 of the White Mountain Ski Runners meet yesterday on Taft Trail at Franconia. Andrew E. Ritchie, Jr. '34 was third in the race with a time of 3 minutes, 36 seconds. Herbert S. Sise '34 and Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34 were the other members of the team, and the fourth place was won by adding up the times of the three...
Died. Albert I, King of the Belgians, 58; of injuries suffered in a fall while mountain climbing; near Namur, Belgium...