Word: steep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Postal Inspector M. G. Wenger: "Evidently the plane - we think it must have been traveling about 207 m.p.h. - thundered head on into the steep-slanting, knife-edge ridge only 20 ft. from its top. Part of the undercarriage and nose, with much of the mail, ripped off upon the ridge, and the rest of the plane, with the seven bodies, plunged off the cliff, striking once about 400 ft. down and then ricocheting off and tumbling some 600 ft. more into the uptilted snow field...
Fontaine Maury Maverick dropped his first name (so he says) as a small boy, riding in a wagon up a steep hill, when the driver told him that unless he thus lightened the load they would never make the grade. Critics of New Deal Congressman Maverick assert he has dropped more than a name, accuse him of throwing over family traditions, party principles, national ideals. A literate legislator, Maury Maverick replies to this wholesale charge in a rambling, engaging, man-to-man discourse on the state of the nation and himself...
Rocky and steep is the path that the Harvard baseball team will have to travel if they are to reach the pinnacle in the Eastern intercollegiate League...
...transcontinental route or south for 419 mi. on Wyoming Air Service and Varney Air Transport to catch TWA at Albuquerque. Though Denver and the airlines have long been aware that both could profit by altering this uneconomic situation, they have been prevented from doing so by an opposition as steep as the scarp of the Rockies which so long held back the railroads-the attitude of the U. S. Post Office Department. Last week Denver was again jubilant, for it finally succeeded in tunneling through this obstacle...
...chosen], an itinerant, shopsoiled twice divorcee with two ex-husbands living. . . . She came too far below, she clashed too crudely, with the nation's idea and ideal, dream and myth of feminine royalty. . . . She would not do. The comedown from Queen Mary to Queen Wally was too steep...