Word: schaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize. Last week as the 1932 Fair began, this year's sweepstakes was won again, as it has been every year since 1929, by Painter Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an even more passionate detail-monger than Author Stong. Other prizes went to amateur artists from Grinnell, Schaller, Independence, Des Moines, Ames, Iowa City and What Cheer. Grant Wood, 40, was born at Anamosa, Iowa. His Iowa landscapes look like photographs of landscapes modelled out of hard candy. The man-made detail-houses, pumps, fence-palings-are mathematically meticulous. The natural detail is stylized, as in a treetop...
...Hans Hartmann and Dr. Karl Wien passed the spot, which was by no means too difficult for skilled mountaineers. Hermann Schaller was just about to ascend the steep couloir, and I watched him from near by; for my rope team, consisting of Hans Prischer, myself and a porter, was to follow at once...
...Quietly and surely Schaller cleared the steps formerly cut. Passang, the second man on the rope, elderly and reliable, followed for a few metres, and a third man, Tsain Narboo, stood on the boulder at the beginning of the couloir and managed the rope...
...Suddenly Passang's body shot downward, followed immediately by Schaller, who in a high curve shot over him through the air into the snow-filled couloir...