Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedition, we did not get to the top of a single peak, for our sole object was to locate the mountains. Some of these peaks are the most impregnable I've ever seen, and one as yet unnamed peak, over 14,000 feet high, had one absolutely vertical cliff 6000 feet high. If they ever try to climb some of these, I hope I'm not around...
...rubber counter, an old attendant was busy helping his customers and watching out for sneak thiefs. He took great pride in the fact that "the greatest college" owned what appeared to him the greatest store in the world. "Yes, sir," he said, "I know Harvard is the owner; they've had it for over fifty years...
Dora is quite different from other girls. She doesn't mind telling us how old she is. How old are you. Dora? You've forgotten again? Never mind. But keep your thumb out of your mouth. Dora is twenty-three. She has been here now nearly ten years. There has been some improvement. Now Dora can bathe herself and tie her shoes...
...tutor, remained as his mother's fiance. Tutor Neville took the gun away, left mother & son alone. Few minutes later he heard a shot, found Jesse Livermore Jr. lying in a pool of blood. On the floor beside him his mother was clutching a rifle, sobbing: "I've shot my son. He dared me to." Taken to a hospital, where doctors found him too weak to stand the removal of a bullet which had sheared through one lung and lodged in his liver, Son Jesse gasped: "It was my fault, I guess. It was an accident." Next morning...