Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curve receded from the ancient highs of Greece and Rome to the 12th Century, when the index number was 2.7. As Christendom, galvanized by the Crusades, moved toward the Renaissance, the war indices started to climb by leaps & bounds. The index of the 15th Century was 31.12. of the 18th, 567.5. There was a slight downswing in the tranquil 19th; but in the first quarter of the World War century the number was 13,735.98-eight times the total of all preceding centuries...
Educator John Dewey stared, smiled and applauded. Neurologist Stewart Paton stared, smiled and applauded. Geneticist Charles Benedict Davenport stared, smiled and applauded. Likewise did four dozen other specially invited guests at the performances of a 19-month old boy known as Johnny. They watched the youngster critically as he climbed up a steep plank to get a banana, as he dropped down from a 5-ft. perch (see cut, p. 18), as he got around on roller skates, as he picked out familiar objects from a pile of hells, pencils, spoons and other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with...
...Burford calling Newark. Weather is getting bad. Heavy snowstorms at 3,000 ft. Will try to climb above it." That was Pilot Dean Burford, eastbound. A minute later...
...Communists, with a radical friend who is murdered by the Interests. Tarred with the Left brush, he is crushed by his onetime comrades of the Right. His college classmates, holding a reunion, dress as cowboys, get drunk, mumble themselves into a rage against "good old Pete.'' They climb in his window, bully his little daughter, argue drunkenly with him. When they propose to take him forcibly to apologize to the college president, he orders them out profanely. One lassoes him. The connotations of the rope and the song. "Hang him to a sour apple tree," suggest a lynching...
...this point the interview was interrupted by a small, white, nondescript dog who was trying to climb into the interviewer's lap. "Johnny, get down," ordered Miss Williams, but Johnny was inclined to be disobedient. "You see, Johnny is really an important member of the cast, even though there was no part written for him in the play. He comes on the stage and whines and misbehaves, and is terribly restless, and doesn't realize he's on the stage. He makes everybody laugh when they should pay attention to the rest...