Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washburn's film, the first ever to be made, shows the way in which hardy mountaineers attain the summit of this lofty mountain, the upper ridges of which are almost continually swept by furious storms, which render the peak virtually inaccessible during more than four-fifths of the year. Washburn, along with W. C. Everett '33, camped out at altitudes of 10,000, 12,900, and 15,000 feet on one occasion struggling through snow up to their waists at an altitude of 14,000 feet, where the thin air is a great cause of weakness...
Karl K. Kitchen, newspaper colyumist (New York Sun) last week reported that "a few nights ago one of the most eminent physicians in New York received a tel phone message to hurry over to a home in the upper Eighties, off Park Avenue." The physician "was conducted upstairs to a bathroom on the third floor where a middle-aged woman wrapped in bath towels was seated" on what polite Kolyumist Kitchen called "a window sill, part of the low window having been converted into a seat." Situation: the sill had been freshly painted; the lady was stuck, to move caused...
...Ripley, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, and nationally known authority on railroads, will be the guest of honor at dinner at Adams House this evening. After dinner he will address members of the House and their guests in the Upper Common Room on "Some Aspects of the Present Railroad Problem...
...passageway connecting the western and central stairways in Baker Library on the second floor will soon provide an uncongested passage for men going or coming from upper floor classes. A partition wall cutting off the northern end of some little-used offices is being constructed to make this hallway come between the south side of the main reading room and the offices. According to Assistant Dean Esty Foster '21, this hall will not only lesson congestion on the western stairway by providing two routes for students going to and from upper floor classes, but will also make the reading room...
...George Washington Memorial Bridge--just opened across the Hudson between upper New York city (178th Street) and Fort...