Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title Mrs. Wharton means to suggest that her characters, in their social security, have scarcely realized the ruin they so narrowly escaped. Mrs. Wharton too, basking on the literary peak where she has longtime lived aloof, gives no sign of realizing that she is a distinguished anachronism...
...party of Japanese. Hans Fuhrer who will be the guide on this trip was also on the Japanese expedition and it is rumored that a silver ice axe, a gift from the Emperor of Japan to the leader of the party, was left at the peak...
...Panama Canal or a new canal through Nicaragua will soon be necessary, is flatly contradicted by a recent report of the Senate Appropriations Committee which indicates that the Panama Canal is now operating at less than half capacity and that the tonnage passing through it has never approached the peak reached...
...when it plays an alumni team. Although the game is an informal encounter it is important inasmuch as it will reveal the team's potential strength. All the men who will play today are experienced and played at some time last season. However, the squad has not reached the peak of its form as yet and will work hard next week in preparation for its southern trip, on which it will play four games, going as far south as Washington...
...expedition into the hitherto practically unexplored Clemenceau ice field region of the Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies will be made this summer by A. J. Ostheimer '29, who last year made the first ascent of Mt. Lyell, another peak in the same range, on which he collected much valuable data and many geological specimens of value. This expedition will have as its objective the ascent of Mt. Tsar, an unclimbed peak with an altitude between 11,000 and 12,000 feet, and the topographical and geological exploration of the Chaba and Whirlpool peaks which are in the same...