Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernarr Macfadden, 62, publisher, being free of organic disease or any defect which would interfere with safe handling of an airplane; and having executed five gentle and three steep figure8 turns, three landings and a spiral from 2,000 ft., last week was awarded a private pilot's license by the Department of Commerce...
...Vladivostok is much like San Francisco, physically, built on and around a dozen steep hills, but there are only two lines of street cars and no taxis in town. Most of the lugging is done with Chinese carriers, who have a sort of chair arrangement they pack on their back, and I'll bet they could carry pianos and billiard tables if they had any here...
...Vagabond in sheer disgust turned back to Memorial Hall. As he climbed the steep ascent to Haven his steps were laggard. And then, on the three hold he stood transfixed. There, staring out of the tower, spy glass in hand, was a wily Oriental peering off to the Charles where Princeton was practicing for the race. As he watched, he muttered to himself, "Oh Tiger, father Tiger...
...years' fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. About 35 men from the eight accepted schools of landscape architecture went into the preliminaries two weeks ago, but they had only a one day problem on a memorial park of about 40 acres to be placed on a steep hillside. The final problem has not yet been announced...
...purchase as he shot downward on his special skis-the skis of a fairytale, fantastically long and heavy. Five electric control stations shunted into a 150-metre circuit measured his time. On the long skis Chiogna crouched in the Schneider position invented by Tyroleans who cannot use on their steep slopes the erect position of the Norwegians. A diminishing spot on the peakside, he shot down into the valley, while his passage automatically formed the connections that told how fast he was going. Turning, he hurried to the nearest official to find out what his time had been...