Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Muddle No. 3: Captain Marmaduke R. Alderson had lost three engines and the fourth was wheezing for lack of fuel when he finally landed, virtually dead-stick. With no power to smooth out her landing the Cavalier struck heavily on the crest of a mountainous wave, bashed in her hull...
...glass to all intents and purposes invisible. Reason: glass is visible because of the light reflected from its surface; with a soap film there are two reflections, one from the glass and one from the soap; by spacing the two surfaces properly it is possible to get the "crest" of a light wave bouncing off the glass to coincide with the "trough" of the wave bouncing off the soap so that the two cancel out. It appeared that a film dried as a varnish four millionths of an inch thick was just right to kill all reflections. Yet the film...
Aircraft rode out Depression II on the crest of an armament boom. Earnings...
...picture on it. Kantor builds with virtuosity, his favorite brush stroke a kind of scallop, his favorite atmospheric greys and browns full of warm or cold shine from the color elements in them. His compositions are sometimes epigrams in paint: a lighthouse stout and stark on a green hill crest with telephone poles slanting one way on one side, the other way on the other, as if in a tug of war that keeps the lighthouse rigid...
Shasta Dam will be one more world wonder for Californians to boast about-more than half again as vast a bulk of masonry as the Great Pyramid, only 167 ft. lower than Boulder Dam (world's highest: 727 ft.), only 700 ft. shorter at the crest than Grand Coulee (world's longest: 4.200 ft.). World's No. 2 Dam in these respects, it will be No. 1 for the height of its overflow: 480 ft., or thrice the fall of Niagara...