Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...features make it impossible for the C.I.O. to climb the Canadian grades in the same gear which it used in Detroit. The hill across the border is less steep, for General Motors Ltd. largely gave way before the strike commenced. The forty-hour week, extra pay for overtime, grievance committees, and seniority rights are conceded by the company, which opposes most stiffly the question of union recognition. Negotiations on this issue await only the withdrawal from the employee delegation of an agent of the Detroit United Autoniobile Workers. It is the extraordinarily aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming...
...Coastal Range marches down to the sea at the Golden Gate, one of the most spectacular cities in the U. S. sits upon immense hills. But though these pup mountains give San Francisco many a gorgeous view, they long retarded her development. Horses cannot pull wagons up the steep streets, only the most vigorous people care to walk them, automobiles must go into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable car, started the first...
...clock this afternoon there will descend the steep steps of Sever 11 a strong-jawed, stern-faced figure, dressed picturesquely in chaps, boots, broad sombrero, and all the other parapherhalia of the Western plains. His spurs will catch on the stairs and twirl with a merry ring; his lasso will describe lazy circles over the heads of the admiring assembly. Knox Chandler, the Cowboy Professor, will mount the platform nonchantly and present his opinions in the most vigorous dialect of the youthful American language...
...downhill ski racing championship; by shooting down Les Houches, Alpine run that drops 3,070 ft. in two miles, in 4 min. 3 2/5 sec., without a spill; in a snowstorm, at Chamonix, France. The women's champion, famed Christl Cranz of Germany, got down a less steep course...
...hillside. Park Carpenter, second vice-president of the Association, who is in Laconia making final arrangements for the championships, is still praying for snow. But if this fails to materialize, winter sport fans may witness the unique spectacle of an otherwise bare hillside bisected by a glittering, steep ribbon of snow, with a run-off field, snow-blanketed at its base. The process will be the same employed at the Boston and New York indoor winter sport shows, only on a much bigger scale. The artificial ice-manufacture and its sprinkling over the big 60-meter jump, if it becomes...