Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after another, he stationed observers in various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably above him. The Ramapo, its stern at the base of the wave behind, was found to be tilted up at an angle 11 ° 50'. Using this angle and the distance from bridge to stern the wave-height...
...June rise this year. In July the river fell more than six inches. Last week it was zero, an all-time low for July. "Never before," declared the Weather Bureau, "has there been such a general drying up of streams in July from the Rocky Mountains to the crest of the Appalachians...
...Chicago last week there was a notable directors' meeting, not for big corporations but of Rotary International, whose crest is a cogwheel and whose motto is "Service above Self-He profits most who serves best." To 1,000 lunching Rotary Clubs throughout the land and to the city where Rotary was born 29 years ago. the directors brought messages of Hope. Goodwill and a Bright Future from all over the world. Samples: "India faces the future with confidence." -Frederick Ernest James, Madras planter and Honorary General Commissioner of Rotary for Middle Asia. "Leaders of China are engaged in reconstruction...
...report. Oats, barley, rye and hay were correspondingly about 45% of normal. In spite of the week's rains, wheat was still breaking around $1 on the Chicago Board of Trade and Speculator Jesse L. Livermore was reported to be emerging from his fourth bankruptcy on the crest of the bull market...
...cooled motor in existence, fitted with split crankshafts (for greater endurance), new type cylinder heads (for greater cooling). Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic fired a nation-wide interest in aviation-and aviation stocks. The public rushed into a market already on its way up to its 1929 crest. The U. S. Government bought practically every one of the 261 Pratt & Whitney engines made in 1927, about half of the 1928 production of 953 units. The little group of organizers, all active in the company, kept their shares away from the public, voted a stock dividend of 79 shares...