Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time the face of Carbon Mountain was a sheer cliff. Rock near the crest of the cliff, with slight forewarnings, cracked off, crumpled and crashed 150 ft. to the valley floor. Carbon's vertical face thus became a slope...
...appearance he is short (5 ft. 6 in.), chunky (160 lb.), with a white crest above a round, deep-lined, bespectacled face. He favors brown suits with white-braided vests. Like Coolidge, he smokes cigars in paper holders. Next to Idaho's Borah, he is the Senate's most forceful orator. No casual debater, he carefully prepares his infrequent addresses, draws a big gallery. His delivery is marked by physical violence, his whole body vibrating, his pointed finger shooting skyward. His voice is loud and clear, with words coming out like bursts from a machine gun. He sprinkles...
...next-to-last sector of his White House fight the Democratic nominee picked New England, territory where he is admittedly weak. By motor from Albany he drove through a corner of Vermont into Massachusetts. At Williamstown, the college students turned out to stare, too mildly.* At the crest of the Mohawk Trail the Governor's party stopped for hot dogs and coffee. Citizens of Ayer were reminded that he once taught Sunday school there...
Nippon Yusen Kaisha is a big if not rich province in the business empire of the Iwasaki, Japan's No. 2 industrial family. Under the family trade name, Mitsubishi ("Three Diamonds," derived from their crest), they own steel works, shipbuilding plants, chemical, electrical equipment and airplane factories, banks, insurance companies, trading companies, urban real estate. As industrial pioneers they rank ahead of the omnipotent house of Mitsui, Japan's No. 1 family. But unlike the ancient house of Mitsui, the Iwasaki fortune dates only from Japan's first industrial stirrings 60 years ago. And unlike the Mitsui...
...pews, of pine, are painted white and the windows are of plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is in the choir, which perpetuates the name of Appleton Chapel, that the regular morning services will ordinarily be held...