Word: steep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special "British Ford" with smaller motor [10 h. p.], $35 for an Austin). So far so good, but Mr. Ford plainly told the English motor tycoons that it is foolish (for them to try and sell "baby cars" in the British Dominions, where roads are rough, hills steep, and greater horse power popular.† "Some English cars," wrote Mr. Ford, "have not been suitable to pioneering conditions in your Dominions, and your manufacturers have 'not attempted to make the type of cars wanted...
...American Legion, the chapel's solemn purpose is to memorialize the U. S. military dead, particularly those of the aviation service. Under the auspices of the New Jersey American Legion, famed Philadelphia Architect Paul Phillipe Cret has prepared plans for a sturdy Norman-Gothic edifice with a steep-gabled carillon tower, suggesting the village churches of France. A minute side chapel, seating possibly a score, will have altar vessels of duralumin salvaged from the wreck of the Naval dirigible Shenandoah which soared away from Lakehurst and crumpled over Ava, Ohio, in 1925 (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925). Non-sectarian services will...
...Presidency was moved 200 ft. westward last week when President Hoover officially crossed West Executive Avenue. Flanked by Secretaries George Akerson and Walter Newton, the President marched up the steep outside steps of the State, War & Navy building, climbed the sharply curving inside stairway to the third floor, entered the ornate office of General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. There he was officially greeted by his Secretaries of State and of War who work in the same building. Clerks peeped in at him, buzzed with excitement at having "the Chief" under their roof...