Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon thousands covered the hill above Fairmont Canning Co.'s field. They struggled down the slope and along the lanes cut four rows wide through the 15-acre patch of specially planted corn. In the field stood 18 huskers with their managers and trainers. Beside each was his brand new steel wagon drawn by a rubber-tired tractor. While four bands played and loudspeakers blared, National Guardsmen did their best to keep the friendly crowd from getting in the way of the contestants...
Bound from Manila to San Diego last year, Commander Whitemarsh found his 477-ft. navy tanker Ramapo wallowing up & down the slopes of waves the like of which he had never seen. As the speeding giants overtook him one after another, he stationed observers in various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably...
...into their faces. Old Clarence De Mar, Keene (N. H.) school teacher, who has won the Boston Marathon seven times, waved to his friends at South Framingham. At Natick, a New York runner named William Steiner, who stepped along like a sprinter, was 200 yd. ahead. Up the long slope toward Wellesley College, Steiner slowed down and John Kelley of Arlington, Mass, and a pale, unhappy-looking Finn named Dave Komonen soon caught him. From the sidewalks, Wellesley girls waved to the runners who pass through their town in underclothes once every year-Leslie Pawson, last year's winner...
...committed to us rules of reason as holy messengers of Thine: Forgive our foolish ways, capture our truant thoughts, direct our wandering wills, as once again with contrite hearts we fling ourselves as penitents in utter self-abasement upon the world's great altar stairs of prayer that slope through darkness up to Thee. . . . Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." With this prayer by Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips the U. S. Senate began its deliberations one noon last week...
...Tavatui on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, 1,000 mi. east of little Fraser, the station master decided it was all right to switch a freight train on to the through track, if he closed the semaphore signal. In the opposite direction a local passenger train roared into view. The engineer in the cab ran through the semaphore, head on into the freight train. Result: 33 dead, 68 injured. Last week in nearby Sverdlovsk a Red Court sentenced engineer and station master to be shot dead. Five others of the train and station crews got prison terms...