Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horsepower Normandie which in June 1935 set the record: 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes (average 30.31 knots). The Cunard White Star liner rounded Bishop's Rock this week to win in 3 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes (average 30.63 knots) She can thus hoist the "Blue Ribbon," take the Hales Trophy from the French liner, advertise herself as "the world's fastest ship...
...treacherous ribbon of curves and grades which you so graphically describe is the old Ridge Route, abandoned these past three years in favor of a three-and four-lane modern high-way which cuts almost straight across the mountains...
Bible of the medieval schoolmen was Aristotle; when herbalists began to list plants unmentioned by him, Aristotle's omniscience was first challenged. The first microscopists - Malpighi, Swammerdam, Leeuwenhoek-added their heretical testimony. With Buffon and Reaumur, 18th Century France temporarily captured the blue ribbon of Science. Then Sweden's Linnaeus revolutionized the study of nature by his field-trip to Lapland, gave the world the Linnaean system, the first great attempt to classify plants. The unconsidered Lamarck, with his theory of ''the inheritance of acquired characteristics," was the forerunner of the evolutionists...
From Los Angeles to Bakersfield, Calif, stretches the Ridge Route, a treacherous ribbon of curves and grades famed both for its scenery and its danger. After 51 motorists had been killed on Ridge Route in 15 months, Chief E. Raymond Cato of the California Highway Patrol decided on an ingenious method to cancel the carnage, put it into effect last week on a 62½-mile section of the Ridge Route from Castaic Junction to Arvin Road...
...ribbon for each bough...