Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane droned up the steep pass beyond the tree line, its motors suddenly coughed. Back at once circled the pilot in search of a landing place. Before he could find one, his plane was caught in a strong air current, slithered downward, crashed in a fountain of flame on the rocky saddle between the two dormant volcanoes. When rescuers climbed up over the mountain flank, most of the 14 bodies were incinerated beyond recognition...
...seven square miles on a low lava flow peninsula which projects from the foot of the sheer cliffs, 1,500 to 2,000 ft. high, forming the imposing north coast of the island. The settlement is accessible from the remainder of the island only by a very steep and narrow foot and horse trail, carefully guarded. In fact the settlement is closer, insofar as accessibility is concerned, to Oahu than to the remainder of Molokai...
National Distillers made $7,009,000 in 1935, a steep decline from the $11,134,000 made in 1934. That year National Distillers was still selling a large quantity of its high-priced, pre-Prohibition whiskeys, whereas in 1935 about 95% of its volume came from cheap whiskeys, aged up to 15 months. National's 1935 sales of $52,596,000 were only some $2,000,000 more than in 1934, although the sales by cases increased 43%. Seton Porter's big-liquor combine produced 26,214,000 gallons of whiskey, about one-seventh...
...Horn graybeards that hurt a solid little ship, but the stinking steep, toppling walls of water a hundred-mile breeze pushes up in a shallow puddle like the North Sea or Channel...
...turns are mean and the grade is steep and fast. A peculiarity of this trail is that the hardest part is at the bottom, when the racers are all tired...