Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along a take-off level notched into the side of an Alpine peak near the Engadine Valley, Chiogna, crack skiman of Switzerland, moved out onto the run. It dropped away under his feet so sharply that watchers behind him could not see the whole course; part of it seemed almost perpendicular. On the run the packed icy snow had just enough surface to give Chiogna steering purchase as he shot downward on his special skis-the skis of a fairytale, fantastically long and heavy. Five electric control stations shunted into a 150-metre circuit measured his time. On the long...
...Wadsworth House, gave out a number of details concerning the cases, which he said had never been numerous enough nor serious enough to constitute an epidemic. The only unusual thing about it was that the increase came in January instead of March as is usually the case. However, the peak was reached about a week after the end of the Christmas holidays, indicating that the students had gotten the diseases at their various homes...
...first time, the ascent of Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Western Europe (15,780 feet high) will be filmed. This summer, H. B. Washburn '33, and W. C. Everett '33 will make the arduous ascent. The filming will include scenes in the valley as well as a complete narrative account of the climbing of the famous mountain...
...Last week all such ideas were quickly shattered. In Chicago blocky, white-haired Mr. Farrell arose to address a convention of the National Canners and National Wholesale Grocers Association. He was far more bullish than those who predict a turning-point in the "not distant future." Said he: "The peak of the Depression passed 30 days...
Bolivia: Announced a legal holiday with a two-minute period of silence. Hundreds of students and public authorities scrambled up Cerro Rico, the peak from which Bolivar first saw the country that was to bear his name...