Word: steep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles slid M-10001, its Diesel-electric power-plant driving it along at 70, 80, 90 m.p.h. Thanks to airconditioning, its passengers felt nothing of Imperial Valley's heat. Up steep grades of the Rockies M10001 sped at over 50 m.p.h., shot through the snow-capped passes of the Continental Divide, glided swiftly across the prairies. Between Dix and Potter, Neb. it covered two miles in one minute flat. Never before had a passenger train hit 120 m.p.h.* After a run of 38 hr. 49 min. from Los Angeles M10001 glided smoothly into Chicago's La Salle Street...
...Cornish decided to try nursing yet another dog up the steep ascent from death. In his Berkeley, Calif, laboratory last fortnight the sallow young experimenter, with all the care and skill that experience had taught him, asphyxiated a fourth mongrel, revived it a half-hour after breathing had stopped, five minutes after its heart was stilled. Last week Dog No. 4 was rolling in delirium. But its blood pressure was rising, its pulse was nearly normal, and it was swallowing liquid food. Dr. Cornish reported that Dog No. 4's first week was vastly more encouraging than...
...gained speed, as her new sails gave to the wind and filled. Lines drew taut, no longer came the tapping of loose roped upon slackened sails. The ripple in the harbor as the boats slid through the water widened as an arrow, and soon white foam frothed under the steep bows...
Diego Rivera puffed up a mountain at Taxco, Mexico, slipped on the steep path, fractured his right hand. As soon as he can hold a paint brush again, Artist Rivera announced, he will reproduce on the walls of Mexico City's $30,000,000 Palace of Fine Arts the murals which John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had torn from Rockefeller Center (TIME...
Sprawled on the steep east bank of the Hudson River, 70 miles above Manhattan Poughkeepsie is more accustomed to the genteel antics of Vassar College girls than to the annual turbulence of a college rowing race. Since it started in 1895, the Poughkeepsie Regatta has become the biggest, the most important of the year. The succession of races has been interrupted only twice: first during the War, again last year when few of the participating colleges felt they could afford to send boats Last week, the river was again filled with big shiny yachts; excursion craft, canoe; and launches...