Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, R. E. A. C. Paley,* 25, called by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was researching, "the greatest mathematician in England and one of the greatest in the world"; when an avalanche started by his skis, swept him down Fossil Mountain near Banff, Alberta...
Again last week the innards of Carbon Mountain, a hill in the southwest corner of Colorado three miles south of Durango, churned and rumbled. Fissures opened in its slopes, oozed warm earth. Surface rock, amateurishly estimated as 25 million tons, avalanched down into Animas Valley to the north and might have rumbled on into Durango> did not Smelter Mountain intervene as a retaining wall. But Durango's citizens were calm. The breakup of Carbon Mountain has been going on since mid-December...
...watched a snorting little Puss Moth skitter off the field at Purnea, near the Nepal border. The Moth climbed northward up the Kusi River Valley, then carefully wheeled as it approached Nepal. Ahead, across a prodigious frozen ocean of glaciers, crevasses and icy peaks, rose the highest and holiest mountain on earth. Only by trigonometry had man ever measured Mount Everest's vast height (29,140 ft.). Only in his tenacious imagination had he ever scaled...
...should turn even the most casual Christian to thoughts of his Savior. Whatever material improvement the year may bring, may, after prayer, honestly be attributed by Christians to Christian faith. And once more a Holy Year will serve to remind the world that Pius XI, 261st Pope, once a mountain climber named Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, is at 75 a world figure, the hale, vigorous-minded ruler of some 300 million souls of all races. A temporal sovereign-in his 108.7-acre Vatican City, he is master of millions & millions in wealth. He said last February, "God after accepting...
...during War bombardments. His report of what he saw was quickly reported by the Associated Press when he landed at Kansas City: "It was the most spectacular sight I ever have witnessed. The meteor appeared out of the northeast, traveling west by southwest. It was 5:15 a. m. Mountain Time, and I was over Adrian, Tex., 45 miles west of Amarillo...