Word: summits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lecture Mr. Mallory will tell the complete story of the expedition that reached the unprecedented altitude of 27,235 feet above sea level, a height only 1700 feet below the summit. During the climb vast snow plains and glaciers were crossed through blizzards of snow and hail. One avalanche that swept down the mountainside carried several of the Hindu helpers into deep crevasse to instantaneous death...
...final dash for the summit Mr. Mallory and two other succeeded in reaching a spot 1700 feet from the summit. There a solid wall of ice stretched upward to the peak. Footholds were cut in this, in a last desperate effort to complete the journey. However utter exhaustion compelled a hasty retreat...
...Santo Domingo, and everybody is happy. At the request of France, England, and Germany, he says, the Americans took over the management of the island, for the sake. I suppose, of the Proteus excogitated by Monroe in 1823. Why the Monroe Doctrine was not called forth from the summit of the Olympus when the British occupied the Falkland Islands in 1832, or when a Spanish fleet bombarded Cuzeo and blockaded that and other Chilean ports in 1866, or, what is still more, when in 1863 Maximilian intervened in Mexico and founded there an empire, nobody has been able to tell...
...Scene III Man is at the summit of his career and all is magnificence and splendor. The action is in a great ballroom with a raised platform at one end, across which Man makes his triumphant way. There is a great central window showing a deep blue sky in the center of the stage. The railing around the raised platform, which is reached by two sets of steps, is of gilt and a great...
...meeting of the Woodrow Wilson Club last night, the following officers were elected: President, Franklin Samuel Pollak '23 of New York City; vice--president. Robert Purington Koening '24 of New York Ciety; secretary, Charles Stockton Kimball '24 of Buffal0, N. Y.; treasurer, James Dusenberry Winans '24 of Summit...