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Word: ramps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lkischer Beobachter's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Kaffl later described the scene in the beer hall at that very moment: "I stood on the ramp of the gallery overlooking the room crowded with brown and green uniforms. Groups had formed here and there, laughing, talking and exchanging greetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...station the President handshook his friend Fred Botts, "dean" of the Warm Springs Foundation. "I'll be back for Thanksgiving," he said, "with provisos." He went up the ramp to the platform of his private car. The send-off crowd hushed itself, to hear his words of farewell. Franklin Roosevelt grinned his broadest and said: "I'll be back in the fall-if we don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Spirit of Warm Springs | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...performance estimates. Pleased was Pilot Cover (who is in charge of sales) with other features of the ship; with no wing below them passengers once more have an unobstructed view of the ground ; the ship, low-hung, can be loaded with passengers and freight without the use of a ramp; mechanics can get to its engines for minor adjustment from the ground without using stands. Also important: the high-wing construction lessens the hazard of wingtip stalling at low speeds to which some low-wing jobs are prone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: High-wing | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...future city" is a large shopping center, with stores arrayed like the cells of a honeycomb fronting the interior of a huge hollow rectangle. A wide continuous ramp runs around this great courtyard from bottom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Garden City of Future" Exhibited at Robinson Hall | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...from Port Washington, few minutes after the German plane had taxied to the ramp, droned the Pan American Clipper, off for England via Bermuda and the Azores. Having crossed the Atlantic by the northern route four times with precision, Captain Harold E. Gray and his pioneering crew were making the first test of the Southern route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: New Flights, New Fliers | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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