Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Club's first year, members have taken part in annual climbing jaunts up mountain peaks, across glaciers, and down erevices throughout the world. HMC representatives made up half the party which in 1936 reached the top of Nanda Devl, the highest peak yet scaled...
Unsuccessful stabs at conquering stratospheric crags have also found College participants out in full force. A peak in the Himalayas known only as "K2," but the second highest in the world, withstood all the efforts of Harvard mountaineers, in 1939, as it has all other aspiring climbers...
Most recent expedition to what the appetites of the Club's over upward-looking group of mountaineers was last summer's successful ascent of three-mile-high Mount St. Elias, in Alaska, the fourth highest peak in North America. On the same campaign the HMC's eight-man party under William L. Putnam '45, added twenty-one more first ascents to the Club's long list of accomplishments fifteen of them in four days of climbing...
...business with the Army, Meyers got his fingers into a metal-tooling factory. It was the Aviation Electric Corp., a few miles from his office at Wright. It wasn't much- a 190-ft. by 140-ft. one-story building with no more than 30 machines, at its peak. Benny put about $54,000 in it. He needed one more tool-a stooge behind whom he could hide his ownership of Aviation Electric...
Poppa died in 1929, leaving practically nothing. His widow went to work as the manager of the Baton Rouge Country Club, and Chep went to L.S.U. He was there when Huey Long was at the peak of his power. He graduated with a law degree, joined his brother's law firm and in 1936 was voted the "most popular escort" by the city's debutantes. He was dashing and debonair. In spare moments in 1936, he worked for the election of a reform candidate for governor against Huey's man, Richard Leche (rhymes with mesh). Leche...