Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in New Delhi last week, after his Swiss climbing expedition gave up just 900 ft. short of Mt. Everest's summit (TIME, March 31), Mountaineer Edouard Wyss-Dunant described a new difficulty facing future Everest climbers. The world's highest mountain, he announced, is getting higher all the time.* Although Everest's altitude is officially listed in India's records at 29,002 ft., the Swiss had expected to find it 81 ft. higher than that. But when they got there the mountain proved even higher by their calculations-29,610 ft. Wyss-Dunant...
After watching the sky for ten years now, Zwicky has found no such star, but he has not given up. The 48-in. Schmidt telescope on Palomar Mountain may soon be fitted with powerful spectroscopic equipment. With this Zwicky hopes he will find a tiny neutron star made visible by the light-bending power of its gravitational lens...
Foreman Amberger was talking about the $82 million Trans Mountain Pipe Line now being driven through the Rocky Mountains to carry Alberta oil to the Pacific Coast. For 700 miles, from Edmonton west to Vancouver, the pipeline will follow the famed Yellowhead Pass route through the mountains, where the Canadian National Railways line was built 40 years ago, at a cost of millions of dollars and hundreds of lives. The C.N.R. still ranks as one of the great construction achievements in the development of Canada. The building of the Inch-by-lnch pipeline-driving a new road through the mountains...
...pipeline ditching crews moved into position as soon as the road was ready. Engineers plotted the course for them, along mountain ledges, through deep swamps, or into the beds of wild mountain rivers as much as half a mile wide. In such terrain the automatic ditching machines used on other pipeline projects were practically useless. It took blasting powder to cut through the rocks, steam shovels to ladle away the quicksands of the swamps, and three-ton concrete clamps to hold the pipe in place in the river currents...
...POINT OUT, HOWEVER, THAT I WROTE OTHER BOOKS: "THE DONKEY INSIDE"-ON ECUADOR. "THE BLUE DANUBE"-ON THE MISERY OF GERMANY. "THE BEST OF TIMES"- ON POSTWAR EUROPE. "FIFl"- ABOUT A POODLE. "MADELINE"-ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL. "DIRTY EDDY"-ABOUT A PIG. "THE EYE OF GOD"-ABOUT A MOUNTAIN. I SHALL, HOWEVER, HEED YOUR ADVICE. MY NEXT BOOK IS ABOUT LOVE. ITS TITLE: "WITH THE GREATEST OF PLEASURES." LOVE...