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Kanchenjunga third. To negotiate this frigid, wind-beaten giant they will establish six camps spaced along the peak's last 10,000 ft. Husky Sherpas porters will strap 68 Ib. packs on their broad shoulders, grease their faces to ward off the erosive wind, fight their way upward through the rare air a few feet at a time over the ice steps cut for them...
Experts opined that only the immensely massive construction of the bombed roulette table, which deflected the force of the explosion upward at the chandelier had prevented the Casino from becoming a shambles...
While Mr. Baruch was speaking, two events were occurring which gave his suggestions unusual timeliness. First was that U. S. security markets, reflecting the continued gravely depressed state of trade, again dropped precipitately (only to whip upward with the new week-8,279,000 shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, 2,545,400 on the curb). Second, that in Washington the U. S. Chamber of Commerce was finishing its 18th annual convention (TIME, May 5). As the nearest approach to an organized stabilizer of U. S. Business, the Chamber reported its observations (including President Butterworth's description...
Lights in a skeleton of steel glimmer above Mt. Auburn Street, where thirteen hundred men, thirty thousand tons of concrete, and fourteen hundred tons of structural steel are casting Harvard into another mould. Under the shadow of the new the past looks upward or averts its eyes. An idea, a gift, a burst of undergraduate wit, an impassive digging of foundations and overnight a Unit has changed the skyline, like the house that Jack would have built if he too had had ten million dollars...
...shows the full extent of the meteor on all sides. On the northeastern side the pit has been excavated to the depth of eight feet, and in this way the compression of the layers of the limestone under the meteor can easily be seen, as well as the sharp upward bending of these layers on the sides. Owing to the position of the meteor it is not possible to ascertain how much of a "nose" it has, and how deep this nose has buried itself in the rock. Accordingly only a rough estimate can be made of its mass...