Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became a regular when St. Louis traded Centrefielder Taylor Douthit to Cincinnati last summer. Gay, generally grimy, accompanied by a wife who cried whenever he made a hit, hawk-faced Pepper Martin last week seemed highly pleased with himself and the World Series. Interviewed by fuzzy-headed Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who said he would like to change places with him, Pepper Martin retorted: "O. K. ... If you'll swap your $50,000 a year for my $4,500."* When St. Louis won the seventh and deciding game last week, it was the first time a National League team...
From Greenwich busses will convey the players to Briarcliff Lodge at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., 20 miles from West Point and on the other side of the Hudson. A light practice on the Lodge grounds is scheduled for 4.15. Saturday morning the party will cross the Bear Mountain Bridge to arrive at the Military Academy at 12.15, with lunch at Greystone Manor. After the game busses will leave from the field at 5.30, connecting with a special train which will bring the squad to Cambridge, Saturday night...
From 11 o'clock until 2 o'clock the Peekskill-Bear Mountain Bridge and the main highway, route 9W, from there to West Point will be restricted for the use of north bound cars going to the game. After the game is over, or from 4 to 7 o'clock, this road will be reserved for the cars leaving West Point, thus accommodating the homebound traffic...
...further speed up the returning cars, arrangements have been made with the management of the Bear Mountain Bridge to sell round trip tickets to the motorists on their way to the game, so that on their return they will not have to stop and pay toll a second time...
...Professor Henry Hurd Swinnerton needed to display a whelk, a kind of sea snail, during his zoological lecture. He could not find his whelk. He searched his coat and waistcoat pockets, crawled under his lecture table, peered around the platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt up Everest in 1924 (TIME, July 14, 1924), last week...