Word: plateauing
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...Florida or the Gulf, then turn northeastward, out over the Atlantic. Last week's pit started on this route, swerved northward before it reached the coast of Florida. Off Cape Hatteras it appeared to swing northeastward but its path was blocked because an unusually broad high pressure plateau covered nearly the whole north Atlantic. Following the course of least resistance the pit swept northward into a low-pressure trough-across Long Island, through the heart of New England, into Canada, finally vanishing north of Montreal...
...with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about its job in an orderly manner...
...Ebro front, bald-domed General José Miaja, commander-in-chief on the southern Leftist front, pushed his forces through thinly-held Rightist lines in the Universales Mountains. He drove down the Guadalaviar River valley for six miles, to within nine miles of Albarracin, which commands a broad, unfortified plateau leading to Teruel, only 19 miles away...
...first and second-line planes and an extensive "Maginot Line" of concrete fortifications and emplacements rooted in the Sudetens, President Benes believes he could hold off a German attack for three weeks. By falling back to a second defense line in the cross-country high Moravian plateau east of Prague, his general staff is convinced the nation could hang on for three months more...
Much like the late Elihu Root, who knew every leaf of its venerable trees, is 126-year-old Hamilton College (425 students), which stands on a plateau near Clinton, N. Y. overlooking the Mohawk and Oriskany valleys. Like Statesman Root the classical character of this stanch old institution, named after Alexander Hamilton, its first trustee, is illustrated in the apocryphal story that its quarterbacks call signals in the language of Euclid. The College has not fallen in with the parade of modern big-time intercollegiate athletics, it still has a rule against drinking, it proudly rejected the National Youth Administration...