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...When they reach this stage, they will travel in pairs tied together by a rope. One man will tie himself to the cliff wall by wedging a "piton" or spike into a crack, while the other man climbs. Sometimes mountain-climbers have to drill holes in the rock and screw in expansion bolts to conquer a difficult cliff...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...sorts of Washington parties, entertained some 5,000 at their Embassy. In a single typical week last autumn, they had 354 guests at luncheons, dinners and cocktails, attended nine functions outside-ranging the social scale from an Indian Embassy dinner to a reception honoring the unification of British & American screw-thread standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Some Person of Wisdom | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw. Said Editor Hall: "We want to produce the Rolls-Royce of detective magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hedunit | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Olivet Policy" had come to be known in some circles as "radical," "screw ball," and the chairman of the Board of Trustees claimed that its critique of "big business" discouraged endowments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olivet Spawns Rebel School | 5/25/1949 | See Source »

...Mother's Day, a Manhattan store offered the "all-in-one shears, a many-armed gadget which can be used as a fish sealer, bottle opener, nutcracker, screw-cap opener, hook extractor, pliers, screw driver, or hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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