Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true lover of sport failed to get excited during the summer of 1925 when the newspapers were full of reports from the Mt. Everest Expedition which made two valiant attempts on the peak, and which lost two of its daring climbers, Mallory and Irvine. The world waited in breathless suspense for news of victory over the highest peak on the face of the earth: but instead came the news of defeat and death, the climax of the greatest known mountain expedition...
...expeditions to Mt. Everest, and therefore is regarded as an excellent authority on what actually happened. His new book gives a human account of all the exploration that has ever taken place in the region of Mt. Everest in southern Tibet. Going back to the discovery in 1852 that "Peak XV," 29145 feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess Mother of the World". In 1914 Noel made...
Harvard renewed football relations with Dartmouth in 1922 after a break of 11 years. During that interval Harvard teams had reached a high peak of efficiency and reputation, and The Big Green teams had also fought their way to a top notch ranking, It was, then with anticipations of a hard-fought contest that the spectators filled the Stadium in 1922. Nor were they disappointed, for from start to finish the game was replete with thrills. With the score 6 to 3 in favor of Harvard, and only a few minutes to play, Dartmouth started a march into Harvard territory...
...expedition headed south on the Athabaska River toward its source, which is the Columbia Icefield. After several minor climbs en route Ostheimer and Fuhrer made the first ascent of Mt. Dais. The day was bad and the climbers found themselves in a veritable blizzard when they neared the peak. The ridge leading to the summit was completeley covered with fresh snow and the vertical southern face, hidden in clouds and snow, presented a mountaineering problem of the first order, making the climbing extremely dangerous. Further later stated that the hours spent in feeling their way along this knife ridge...
...handling international conferences, as president of opium parleys at Shanghai (1909) and The Hague (1911). He declined the bishoprics of Washington, D. C., and New Jersey, to preserve for his world ministry the freedom of action he enjoys at Buffalo, N. Y. When his world ministry reached its peak this month, he was not content merely to preside over the hundreds of churchmen he had brought together, but went with them into their councils; explained, directed, adjusted and dictated daily despatches on their progress to the New York Herald Tribune...