Word: summits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking will begin at 8 o'clock, when A. J. Ostheimer '29 will talk on his experiences in the Canadian Rockies last summer, particularly of his ascent of Mount Forbes and Lyell. He was the first man ever to reach the summit of Mount Lyell...
...beings. Fired by the love of a young woman who has sought him out in his childless house, h.9 builds one of these homes with high towers reaching up to the clouds. The master, builder even climbs to the top of his own creation, unfurls the flag at its summit, vindicates his courage before detractors below, before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious. She produces an Ibsen play without a stage director. Autumn Fire, an Irish play and a fine one, is built around the character...
...summer, Dr G. Von Salis and Dr. W. Kolhoster of Switzerland sat on top of Mont Monch, which towers up to 13,465 ft. hard by the Jungfrau in the Alps. They had dug a pit twelve feet wide and 20 feet deep in the eternal ice of that summit, and lowered into it instruments extremely sensitive to radiant energy. Their procedure closely paralleled experiments conducted during 1923-25 by Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), who first buried his instruments at sea level, then flew them far aloft by kites, finally lowering...
...Mass., and Washington is certainly unique. Discerning travelers along the road from bustling Pittsfield to smart Lenox, Mass., cannot have failed to learn that the considerable eminence known as South Mountain, by which they must pass, is mostly Mrs. Coolidge's property; that the spacious house on its summit is hers. The smaller white stone building on the mountain's slope is where, seven years ago, she housed the Festival Quartet of South Mountain, when she determined, out of an insatiable craving and a comfortable pocketbook, to have chamber music and have it in a proper setting...
British artillerymen stationed at the summit of Langdon Stairs near Dover looked out to sea. They saw a snorting little tug-nothing unusual. But one keen-eyed soldier pointed to a tiny speck kicking up a faint spray. It must be another one of these channel swimmers...