Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountain passes to the north of Madrid, where the improperly trained conscripts of White General Emilio Mola have been brawling with the even more improperly trained Government militia for three months, cold rains turned to sleet, then to snow, choked the mountain passes...
...Manhattan. Born Gabriella Pessl in Vienna 27 years ago, daughter of one of Europe's foremost beauticians, "Yella" Pessl forsook the cosmetic industry, studied the piano, then the organ, and finally began to explore the possibilities of the harpsichord and the clavichord. To combine her three interests of mountain climbing, skiing and music, this dark-eyed, energetic young woman carries a portable clavichord on her back on Austrian outings. This summer, be nighted at a Tirolean inn, Yella Pessl met Karl Maendler. When he heard who Miss Pessl was, Herr Maendler vowed he would build her a famous harpsichord...
...love affair of Dr. Prochaska and Pendennis involves much political talk, a skiing trip on which they light fiery crosses and evade the authorities, a night in a mountain cabin where the doctor ministers to a sick child, the bombing of a news paper office. Their idyll ends somewhat inconclusively with the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss. Having left the doctor suddenly, become mixed up in homosexual circles in Vienna, Pendennis realizes that he will need her when she hears of the failure of the Nazi putsch, starts back for Feldbruck. They do not meet again...
Three members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club were included in an Angle-American Expedition this summer which scaled for the first time Nanda Devi, highest mountain in British India. The Harvard scales were Adams Carter '36, William F. Loomis '36, president last year of the club, and Charles Houston '35. Arthur M. Emmens '35, another former club member who in 1934 conquered Minya Konka, a mountain in eastern Tibet, was also on this expedition...
These first three climbs are in the nature of limbering up exercises for more strenuous climbs later and are utilized particularly for practice and instruction. They are also intended for Freshmen and others who wish to join and who have had no previous mountain-climbing experience...