Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Commonwealth Golf Course has not done much to encourage Winter Sports, it has the best natural hills for those who prefer the open slope type of skiing. Located in Newton, within ten minutes drive or a half an hour on the trolley, this location is also the nearest to Cambridge and the most accessible. One steep slope of a quarter mile in width has enough trees to delight the skier who likes to run a slalom course at high speed. The only drawback to the Commonwealth slope is that it is apt to have a crowd of tobogganists...
...Chalk Age (60-130 million years ago), achieved wingspreads up to 30 feet. These hollow-boned hobgoblins weighed no more than a Thanksgiving turkey. In the older Jurassic period (130-170 million years ago) they were generally much smaller than in the Chalk Age. Digging into a desert mountain slope which once was seabottom, Dr. T. A. Stoyanow, University of Arizona geologist, laid bare a Jurassic pterosaur skeleton with a wingspread of some 28 feet, biggest specimen of that period ever found...
...evening last week an automobile with a big trailer stood parked on a peaceful hillside near the town of Washington in southern Indiana. Below, at the bottom of a dark slope, the waters of a small lake shimmered faintly. The hour was nearly midnight and the car itself was dark and empty, but a soft light glowed from the windows of the trailer where a honeymooning couple were preparing...
Touchy, redheaded Selma Temple was walking with her lover, Gardner Heath, when a fox hunt interrupted their peaceful afternoon. The fox passed near them and the girl "saw him trembling with exhaustion, his belly dragging close to earth his brush bemired. His strong claws pulled him up that slope, but the lithe body, weightless two hours ago, was now too heavy. . . . Now not even death could drive his weary body faster up that hill." As the dogs killed him the lovers began to quarrel, Selma protesting against the cruelty of hunters, Gardner impatient at her squeamishness. With this symbolic incident...
...vicious spout swung inland from the bay off Swansea, Wales, struck a hillside, gutted a row of houses, washed 8,000 tons of earth, rock, debris and human beings to the bottom of the slope. Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...