Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peaks to the long disused Tipuani Valley Mine lying almost at sea level in a depression between the Andes. At take-off an airplane must rise from a landing field at La Paz, 12,000 feet above the Pacific, and immediately rise another 8,000 feet to clear the crest of the Cordillera before descending into the narrow valley...
...largest crowds of the House season turned out to see the game. The Leverett eleven went into the game on the crest of a four game streak, during which time they had not even been scored upon, and the Rabbits did not succumb without a struggle...
...wife will start on a trip round the world, avoiding war zones. During shooting of Zola, Muni gave several intimations that Zola's epitaph in the film might mark his own permanent farewell to Hollywood. The possibility of his retirement at his career's crest is not taken seriously at movie colony dinner tables. Last week Muni seemed to be of two minds. "I am going away for a while," he said, "and stay until I'm sick of it. If I like it better I may stay permanently...
...shuffled into place, proceeded to St. George's Chapel-the choir of which is the Garter Chapel-to worship together for the first time in 23 years, the second time in 129. Each knight filed into his own stall over which, during his lifetime, hang his sword, helmet, crest and banner...
...learned their art from Southern California's Coach Dean Cromwell, who declares that an expert vaulter's greatest single asset is a correct psychological outlook. Both run a 99-ft. stretch before the takeoff, grasp the pole at 12 ft. 2 in. for the ascension. At the crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute strength...