Word: descent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toni Matt's record for the American Inferno in 1939, when he skied 3.8 miles from the top of Mt. Washington to Pinkham Notch, N.H., with a vertical descent of 4,300 feet, is 6 minutes 30 seconds. Sig Engl plummeted down Mt. Lassen, Calif, in 1940 over a course a shade under a mile and a half, dropping 1,800 feet in 1 minute 35 seconds. Steve Knowlton covered a course on the Grossglockner in Austria in June 1945, in 55 seconds for nearly a mile, to win the downhill race conducted by the Tenth Mountain Division...
...DESCENT INTO HELL (248 pp.)-Charles Williams-Pellegrini & Cudahy...
Someone else did. And thereby hangs the tale told in Descent into Hell by Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8), perhaps the most remarkable English mystical writer since William Blake, a man whose life and work have had strong influence in the religious thinking of such leading British intellectuals as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers...
...Descent into Hell. It is also one of the most frightening books ever written...
...Although he is no kin to Henry Clay, he claims direct descent from John C. Calhoun...