Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stroke, William S. Rowe, II; 7, James L. Tyson; 6, William E. Huenekens; 5, Dudley Talbot; 4, Laurence S. Johnson; 3, Lauren C. Kingman, Jr.; 2, Richard C. Ninde, bow, Richard M. Burnes; cox, James M. Snow...
...Wellesley's presidents, none but Ellen Fitz Pendleton has been a Wellesley alumna. Modern Wellesley is the creation of snow-haired, precise "Pres. Penn," who in 25 years increased the "college's endowment by $7,000,000, ruled it with an iron hand. Early in President Pendleton's term the famed 1914 Fire burned most of Wellesley to the ground. Undismayed, the president set out to build a vast neo-Gothic plant which now covers the Waban campus with tons of imposing stone. Big (1,500 students) and expensive ($500 tuition), Wellesley thinks of itself...
Above them stared the forbidding face of the North Col. Still farther above them towered the glaring white summit, with its snow plume blowing far out into space. But in sleeping bags within their tiny tents a group of Englishmen and tough Tibetan porters out to conquer unconquered Mt. Everest (29,140 ft.) rested contentedly last week. Camp No. 3 had been safely established at 21,500 ft. Francis Sydney Smythe and Eric Earle Shipton,both crack Alpinists and members of the unsuccessful...
...Leigh Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine are thought to have climbed the First Step before they met their death in 1924. In 1933 Smythe struggled 50 ft. up the couloir, stopped 1,000 ft. short of the summit, convinced that further advance over the rocks, slippery with newly-fallen snow, was futile...
...shall be washed as white as snow, By all the martyr'd virgins kist, While the True Church remains below Wrapt in the old miasmal mist...