Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1966, the competition between the Harvard and Penn heavyweight crews has resembled a game of "king on the mountain." Each Spring a Quaker boat stronger than the previous year's has challenged the Crimson's hold on the national title...
...stopped raining, but the dirt road leading through the mountain meadows to thicker woods and the commune was a river of red mud. The sun was setting as we walked the five miles to the commune. Yana slogged along about ankle deep in mud. I held her sleeping bag for her once while she squatted in the road to piss and a few other times at places where the road had sharp gravel. We had to pass up one shortcut because the rocks would be too hard on Yana's feet. By the time we got to the vicinity...
...late afternoon, but the four-year-old insists: "It can't be. I haven't had my nap." Such is the mind of the child, by most indications illogical and full of nonsense. Not so, says Jean Piaget, a grumpy, mountain-climbing Swiss philosopher who is also one of the world's foremost child psychologists. Few researchers have so meticulously or provocatively mapped that terra incognita, the mental world of children. For 50 years, Piaget, now 73, has been discovering through deceptively simple experiments that children actually have surprisingly intricate thinking skills that adults should learn...
...plans for its next lunar expedition. Buoyed by the bull's-eye at Surveyor Crater, the space agency tentatively scheduled the launch of Apollo 13 for March 12 and picked the most difficult site to date for man's next lunar landing: the ancient highlands near the mountain-ringed crater Fra Mauro...
...stuffed, 60-year-old ursine friend "Archibald Ormsby-Gore" in his work Summoned by Bells ("Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world/When I turned to Archibald, my safe old bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed records with his "Mr. Woppit" along for the ride, and Mountain Climber Walter Bonnati got through one low point on his solitary trek up the Matterhorn's north slopes by confessing his "sins" to Zissi, a tiny Teddy in his knapsack. Princess Alexandra of Kent became almost inconsolable when her Teddy got lost on a good-will tour...