Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposite Vag was another granite wall, rising as steeply from the valley floor as the walls of a room. The vast expanse of bare rock, which swept upward with breath-taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above...
Back on his lookout, Vag lifted his eyes above the forest to the sky-line of distant peaks, in the high back--country. Here was the grandest sight of all. Against a violet, cloudless sky they reared in mighty heaps--some smooth and rolling, others leaping up in jagged swoops to abrupt pin-points. Their naked reds and greys were broken by blue-white patches of glaciers, slowly slipping down their inaccessible ravines. Vag could imagine the icy wind currents which ever-lastingly moaned along down these ravines...
...airliner's reputation for safety means as much to an airline as an only daughter's reputation means to a mother. Every line talks proudly & loudly of impressive passenger mileages without mishap. DC-4's chief safety device is its four engines, developing 5,600 h.p., powerful enough so that any two, even two on the same side, will keep it flying at 7,000 ft., any three will carry the plane 5,000 feet above the highest mountain in the U. S. Furthermore, if one engine fails on takeoff (this possibility has given nightmares to many...
...world. Its teachers are the best paid.* It has the biggest, most expensive school buildings. It also has some 20,000 habitual truants, turns out swarms of young criminals. Until a few years ago nearly one-third of its pupils were retarded, barking their shins against its iron, assembly-line curriculum...
Well-established favorite of the 300 pop-eyed entrants was Budweiser IV, descendant of Budweiser I, a 1932 champion now regarded as the Man o' War among leapfrogs because of the long line of winners he has sired. In fine fettle and raring to go, Budweiser IV was counted on to smash the 13 ft. 5 in. mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world...