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Sloping Strata. Though the new route appears more hazardous in many ways than the old, it has certain advantages. The climbers will not have to cope with the full force of the prevailing northwesterly gales; the rock strata dip down from south to north, making the south side more suitable for camp sites, and eliminating overhangs; and most important, the climber's morale, which ebbs dramatically at the 27,000-ft. level, will be aided by the full force of the sun's rays, which are quickly blanketed on the north face...
...when he went into the Navy, he was making nearly $25,000 a year, and spending his extra cash buying up patents on everything from hair straighteners to paint-can handles. One of them was a bird that would sit on the edge of a water glass, dip its beak in & out for hours on end. At war's end Tigrett licensed a manufacturer to make it, cleaned up $100,000 on his "Glub-Glub...
...darkened near the horizon, supposedly shortly after noon on Oct. 13, 1917. Thousands of people who had gathered that day, on the same spot where three Portuguese children said they had seen visions of the Virgin Mary, declared that they had seen the noonday sun swirl and dip. The pictures were evidence of the miracle, said L'Osservatore, since they were of "rigorously authentic origin" and had been snapped by a witness who "succeeded in fixing the exceptional scene." Last week, L'Osservatore changed its mind, it now doubted the authenticity of the pictures, and added: "We might...
...resulting deadlock, the U.S. had to dip into its strategic stockpile, ration tin to industry. Columnist David Lawrence charged Bolivia, in collusion with British-Southeast Asia interests, with "the biggest holdup in the whole field of raw materials," and asserted that its tin owners, "now getting a 100% return on their invested capital, expect even more if the new phases of the blackmail should be successful...
...knowledge along. Mrs. Davidson showed how well she had learned when Patty began to walk at 16 months (many blind babies still crawl at 24 months). She learned to teach Patty to feed herself. "You stand behind the youngster," she explains, "and ease her into a regular rhythm-dip, slide, and in the mouth; dip, slide, and in the mouth." Last summer Mrs. Davidson got Patty, 2½, accepted in a nursery school with normal children...