Word: steeper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Niles pointed out that ideas about skiing have changed in the past few years. Up till three or four years ago it was almost unheard of for an inexperienced skier to attempt the steeper slops...
Personnel of the newly formed committee is as follows: William Green (Weld); Frank Donaldson (Grays); Edwin Wood (Mathews); William Merg (Hollis); Frank Power (Stoughton); H. P. Steeper (Thayer); Peter Macgowan (Straus); Nathan Young (Wigglesworth...
...steeper-pitched propellers have been mounted, air screws which will take a bigger bite of air, increase the Akron's speed to world's fastest. But more notable is the installation of apparatus in the ship's belly to permit the nesting of five tiny fighting planes in a marsupial hangar, located amidships within the outer envelope. Through a T-shaped trapdoor the planes, hooked to a trapeze, can be discharged or hoisted in. For the past year the Navy has been training special crack pilots to negotiate the ticklish landing, which consists of threading a large...