Word: assault
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...professor" was Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth, who teaches geology at Zurich, but now leads a mountain climbing party which will soon assault Kanchenjunga. Himalayan peak never scaled by man. The monastery (itself three weeks by trek from the nearest white men at Darjeeling, India) was their last stop ping point before establishing their camp on Kanchenjunga's base, some three miles above sea level...
...Keefe, a seventeen-year old freshman of Trinity College, has been suspended from the college for what the authorities call "a violation of rules regarding drinking." Discounting the indefinite phrasing of the charge, which might cover anything from sipping a cocktail to climaxing an evening of drunken driving, assault and battery, and window smashing by setting fire to the college chapel in a fit of alcoholic pique, O'Keefe's suspension brings into the limelight one of the most disturbing aspects of Prohibition as it relates to the American college...
...Assault and Robbery...
Felonious Assault...
...subject of books, pictures, music, etc. . . . good books are not produced frequently and regularly." For such popularizers as Will Durant (Story of Philosophy}, Lewis Browne (This Believing World), Hendrik Willem Van Loon (The Story of Mankind), Critic Notch has less than no admiration; calls their books "an assault upon the world's cultural values...