Word: slidings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belongs to the order of Primates. There is no more reason for our being ashamed of our Northarctus ancestors (early Primates) than for the horse to be ashamed of Eohippus (early ancestral horse). In science we have no fear or shame, we merely survey facts open-mindedly. He shows slide of Northarctus, a fur covered monstrosity...
...deck-hand was perched in the spreaders trying to un foul a tangle of lines, looking like a bird in a wintry tree. Soon his won craft--that little white creature nestling in the cradle on the shore--would slip down the rails that led into the water and slide over to have her own poles set in and made ready to spread her sails to the wind. Now he could see a man climbing out of a ladder, propped up against his boat, and take the ladder away...
...Route Administration faced, as the Soviet Council of People's Commissars ordered them investigated for "treason," "wrecking." Professor Schmidt, often called by Moscow papers "the Commissar of Ice," was not identified by name as Arctic Wrecker No.1 last week, but he was fairly started on the downward slide-by Big New Bolshevik Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior...
Click-click! Click-click! They were putting on speed now. Shortly the train slowed to cross the Thames, and slide into New London Station. The Vagabond thought about the boat races. Then he let his eyes drift out over the harbor, which was darkning now as the sun moved west. Soon the train was moving again, steaming for New Haven...
...steep slope in the direction of the Soviet frontier and disappeared in gathering darkness. Japanese frontier patrols, summoned by the driver, found no trace of the ski-elopers, said they had apparently made for a Soviet frontier post about a mile from the spot where they started their slide...