Word: summits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become a valued if not a great tactician and had served as a professor at the War Academy. In 1896 his reward came. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps, and in 1904 was transferred to command the IV Army Corps−the summit of a German General's hopes in time of peace...
Whether they were buried where they were last seen or whether they climbed on, perhaps to the very top and then were overcome will never be known. Somewhere near the summit the two explorers are still sleeping...
...Leigh Mallory, just three years ago, gave a lecture at the Union in which he showed pictures of Mt. Everest in the Himalayas and said that his next expedition would win the hard fight and reach the top of the mountain. Shortly afterward he tried again to reach the summit and 800 feet from his goal the swirling snow hid him from those far below who were watching with powerful telescopes and he has never been seen since. Captain John Baptist Noel who was with the expedition will give a lecture at 8 o'clock next Thursday evening...
...conferred with leading Dakotans on the advisability of their employing him to carve historic figures out of Needle Rock, a steeple of granite in the Black Hills. Several wealthy persons listened sympathetically to the plan. When asked to suggest what national heroes they thought would best become this lonely summit, they named Washington and Lincoln, two favorites with the public. Mr. Borglum began to make designs...
With Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, scheduled for speedy demolition, artists, architects pondered on what could be done with Diana, Roman huntress by Saint-Gaudens, who, upon a Moorish tower by Stanford White, long adorned the summit of the famed hippodrome. After 56 conflicting proposals, it was last week decided to remove statue, tower, to New York University. Lawyer Elihu Root agreed to head a committee to raise funds for the transfer; architects McKim, Mead & White were appointed for the work...