Word: summits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountain is worth climbing at all, it is worth climbing without these adventitious aids, or with at least as few as possible." This roast-beefy sporting attitude vexed Dr. Raymond Greene who just climbed Mt. Kamet. Cried he angrily: "If oxygen will help us to reach a summit, we are not justified in adding to the roll of those who have already died on Everest...
...appeared as "The Prophetess" in a dance-drama to the music of "Mars" from Gustav von Hoist's suite, The Planets. Many an observer found its symbology muddled and "arty," wondered what was meant by "the Cosmic Consciousness . . . realization of the Unity of Life . . . Summit of Illumination...
Statesmen seems to reach the summit of power only to see for the first time the bottomless valley of oblivion which lies beyond. Realizing that the paths of political glory lead only to the grave, Premier Benito Mussolini has undertaken the task of insuring his immortality in the less transitory world of letters. The world's most famous virtuoso in political showmanship will make his debut as a playwright with and epic to be produced at the Hungarian National Theater...
...with jaunty eagle feathers in their hats and skis slung over their shoulders marched out of barracks for a practice ascent of Monte Galambra. Snowfall was so heavy that two companies turned back. The leading company, officered by a Major and two Captains, pushed through the blizzard, attained the summit. Halfway down they were forced to take shelter in a rest house, were marooned there nearly 36 hours without food or firewood. Three times the shivering company tried to fight their way through to the valley, each time a roaring avalanche swept down, buried soldiers alive. All the officers...
Died. Edwin Scott Votey, 74, first vice president of Aeolian Co., inventor of the pianola player-piano and the first Aeolian pipe organ, director of many a musical instrument company; in Summit...