Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries the stark silent height of the Matterhorn uttered no challenge. Like the Greek Gods of Olympus, like the Firegoddess Pele of Kilauea, a legendary monster of the Matterhorn threatened and forbade. In the middle of the last century Englishmen came, applied cold geological calculations to the possibility of ascent, exploded the monster forever. Since then the Matterhorn has often been scaled, though hundreds have perished in the attempts. Last week an American, Leon Goodrich of Manhattan, set a record by climbing from a low outstation to the peak and back...
...office boy, Composer Hamilton Forrest (TIME, Nov. 4). Like Verdi's La Traviata it is based on La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. Unlike Verdi, Composer Forrest has employed jazz songs and themes, changed the story to bring it "up-to-date," employed dialog described as "stark in its reality...
...roll the projectile-laden caissons to the front zone. Frightened recruits with a weakened morale await the attack side by side with hardened veterans bearing their ancient battle honors on the regimental standards. The estimable old lady of Mr. Auburn street again plays a relief role for Molly Stark, cramming the nervous soldiery with essentials and priming them with the finer point sof trench warfare. Last-minute instructions are issued by the tactical division as the coming campaign is planned in the small hours of the morning. All is quiet on the university front...
Finishing with a score of five victories out of a possible six M C Stark '31 won the intercollegiate individual chess title at the championship matches held at the Marshall Chess Club, New York City, during the past week. Stark succeeds F R Chevalier '29 as title-holder, and retained for Harvard the custody of the challenge trophy donated by William A Vance, Princeton graduate...
After winning four matches at, the expense of two Princeton representatives Stark played two games with W A Robertson '33, winning the first, which gave him the title and losing the second. Thus Robertson wound up in second place...