Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Torrents of rain poured down last week over the steep green mountainsides of St. Lucia, largest of the British-owned Windward Islands in the Caribbean. Old La Soufrière, 4,000 feet high, once an active volcano, now rich in sulfur and hot springs and not to be confused with nearby St. Vincent's La Soufrière, was shrouded in heavy mist. At a time when the island's June-to-October rainy season was past, St. Lucia was drenched, soaked, deluged...
This run is a steep 1500 feet of icy snow. Heavy jumping-type skis are worn, weighted for stability and with handles for the crouching skier to grasp. Bermath laughingly denied that he was scared. According to him it was a great thrill, but nothing more...
Skiing on the steep trails and slalom courses of the 1936 Olympics in Austria was shown last night in crowded Kirkland House Common Room movies taken by the well known Dartmouth skier Ten Hunter...
Tuffy was a 300-lb. lion owned by Joseph Dobish, Wildwood, N. J. boardwalk sideshow concessionaire. Last year Business-getter Dobish worked up an act called "The Motordrome Wall of Death." In this act, Dobish's wife drove a racing car at breakneck speed around a steep-sided wooden bowl, with Tuffy in a sidecar beside...
Much has been written about Mont-Saint-Michel, the famous medieval abbey which covers a steep granite islet off the coast of France, and in summer is in turn covered with tourists. In Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres it has inspired a literary masterpiece. But although the Abbey has long been a writers' and tourists' favorite, no one had thought to write about its guides. That oblique distinction has now been attained by Tides of Mont St.-Michel, whose author won the Goncourt Prize...