Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thus, the small number of portages required will be for short distances only and never will necessitate a climb of more than 15 feet. Between dams the river is surprisingly level; hence, little swift water is expected to retard the upstream voyage...
...main arteries, this pressure is greatly increased. Some causes of hypertension : overactivity of the thyroid gland, emotional disturbances, an abnormally large volume of circulating blood, toxemias of pregnancy. Normal blood pressure increases with age, ranges from no to 135 for a normal adult male.* High blood pressure may climb...
...sketched out the melody twice, sang it froggily, exclaimed at its Oriental character, finished the composition in an hour and 50 minutes. In its final form, harmonized for voice (wordless) and piano, he had it recorded as New York Skyline Melody. Climax of the leisurely, wandering composition: its climb up, over and down the Woolworth Building...
...cannot resuscitate the drunken enthusiasm of 1914, any more than ten million men can be resuscitated from the fields of glory. There will doubtless be a number of flag-waving enthusiasts in this country; and perhaps one of them will even climb on a rostrum in Memorial Hall to address an audience of future soldiers. But however noble-spirited his talk, it will not elicit the raucous cheers of olden times. To convince the new generation of the necessity of war, more plausible arguments are needed than the hackneyed formulae which sent the heroes of 1914 to their graves...
...Civil War, was riding to ruin in the panic of 1873, J. P. Morgan walked cool and incisive, supremely confident of the future of America. At 32 he whipped Dan Drew, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould in their attempt to loot the Albany & Susquehanna R. R., saw its stock climb from $18 to $118 when he lifted the road out of receivership. It was his first real fight. Before gaudy Jim Fisk had left the Wall Street scene-murdered by the lover of one of his gewgaw women-Morgan was becoming a man to lean on as well...