Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eastbound Baltimore & Ohio freight train. B. & O. officials, apprehensive lest the men wreck the train or kill themselves, ordered the train not to leave the yards. Then the marchers tried strategy. They deployed to Caseyville, eight miles away, waited until a string of 30 cars started to climb a steep grade there. Soaped rails and a cut air hose stalled the train, of which the marchers took informal possession. Ice melted from valuable perishable freight while railroad and county police argued with the determined mob. After 24 hours during which the railroad not only did not move 'its stranded...
Landed at abnormally steep gliding angles, the plane rolled to a stop in three times its length...
Peering into the long white trench of the Mt. Van Hoevenberg run, steep and tortuous as a market graph, 20,000 spectators at the more perilous races for four man teams were hopefully horrified by anticipating casualties like those in the pre-Olympic trials. The races, repeatedly postponed by bad weather, were finally run without mishap on a slow track. A U. S. sled steered by William Fiske, U. S.-born Londoner who won the Olympic championship in 1928, won with 7:53.68 for four runs, with another U. S. team second...
...America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow ledges, over slippery boulders. The snow was waist-deep, the cold bitter. On one trail a ledge gave way, the leading car hung suspended bridge-like over a deep gorge. Cables extricated it. Over...
...lectures were by distinguished people especially qualified to diacunn the present state of the world which in parlous. The human race is undoubtedly possessed by a variety of devils and in engaged in "racing" toward that steep place which seems to have always attracted the insane...