Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some force has but to apply, And summits shall be immersed, The bottom of seas raised 'dry- The slope of the earth reversed...
Then all I need do is run To the other end of the slope, And on tracts laid new to the sun, Begin all over to hope...
...side, almost vertical ten miles out, 60 feet above ground at field edge, 15 feet above at field-centre. When the pilot has put his plane squarely on the junction of these two beams, he turns the control over to the robot which brings the plane down the invisible slope to a landing. All the human pilot does is to handle the throttle, watch the instruments, apply the brakes when the wheels touch...
...blue-white under cold bright stars. Ethan (Raymond Massey) climbs to the top of it, his boots actually squeaking in the glittery surface. Pathetic little Mattie (Ruth Gordon) lies down on the sled with him and, with a whistle of wind, they vanish over the far side of the slope. How they maim themselves, instead of smashing out their lives on the big tree at the bottom as they intended, is told in an epilog...
Rupture of a blood vessel cause the death of Newell Bent, Jr.'33 last Sunday on the slope of Mt. Aconcagua, located on the border of Chile and Argentine, according to word received yesterday...