Word: numberings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alps were far from the loftiest of mountains, they were the handiest for Europeans, and they made up in beauty what they lacked in sheer mass. Each year there was news of cave-ins, slips and deaths. But the danger seemed only to increase the fascination and the number of climbers. This summer, a record 100,000 enthusiasts (v. 66,000 last season) checked in at Alpine mountain cabins, equipped with ropes, poles and ice axes, for what turned out to be one of the most disastrous years in the sport's history...
Page at a Time. The news of successive accidents traveled fast this summer (though some Alpine hotelkeepers arranged to have the bodies carried down to the villages after dark to avoid talk). But the news did not seem to discourage the growing number of enthusiasts. The Alpine Club of France has almost 40,000 members, those of Italy and Switzerland 100,000 each, with booming sales of books and magazines devoted solely to how to scale a mountain...
...best explanation of the calamitous 1949 season was simply that more people were climbing, and having more accidents. Another explanation: the long, hot summer had dried out slopes, increased the number of avalanches. One 18-year-old Briton who spent three days trapped on a mountain ledge-and lived to tell about it -was Timothy Smiley of Aberystwyth...
...into her good fortune, as she says, it was partly because Maureen pushed her. While still at Illinois' Rosary College, Maureen landed a job as a teenage columnist with the Chicago Tribune, handed it down 4½ years ago to her kid sister. Chi-Chi has tripled the number of papers...
...answer to this question about Henry Yorke will be found in the novels of Henry Green, which now number seven and embrace an astonishingly wide reach of British life and customs. There are as many distinctive social classes in Britain as there are regions in the U.S., and most British novelists, no matter how imaginative and observant, are as incapable of portraying life in any strata other than their own as, say, a Brooklyn-bred novelist would be of showing how a tree grows in Independence, Mo. But the novels of Henry Green, which are still little known in Britain...