Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mountain climbers were downcast last week. From Calcutta came a wireless saying that Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, commander of the 1924 attempt and failure to reach the highest spot on earth, Mt. Everest's peak,? had learned that the Tibetan authorities** had "definitely decided to prohibit any further expeditions...
...other creatures that take refuge on their bodies, could not bear to have any more human lives endangered and sacrificed on that gaunt tooth of Asia that white men are so perplexingly anxious to ascend. On the third and last expedition, which came within 800 feet of the peak, two men were lost (TIME, June 30, 1924), George Leigh Mallory and A. C. Irvine...
...office has been moved from the third floor of University Hall to the basement, thereby making it more accessible to both students. The quarters are not quite large enough at present for peak seasons, but I am hoping we shall have more room ultimately...
...gross tonnage of ships afloat last year. This was the bottom of a steady decline since the 1921 peak of 17,026,002 tons, although practically twice that of 1917?8,871,037 tons...
Kansas had a peak membership of 150,000 in 1924. Its leaders have made it conservative, supporting law enforcement and no violence. It still seems fairly healthy in this state...