Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed the whole picture. There was an immediate economic decline, and a decline in morale came soon thereafter. By autumn both declines had gathered speed. "This, together with the decay of capital equipment, caused a leveling off of war production for the first time in Nazi history, then a steep decline in production." For instance, the production of locomotives in all German Europe dropped to 1,400 yearly; and the Wehrmacht was losing 29 locomotives a day in Russia (i.e., three years' production in the Russian campaign's first six months...
...agent. Of glacial origin, Lake Pend d'Oreille is a favorite summer resort for the Northwest, is one of the largest U.S. fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats, bright with paint, nose over...
...were pleasantly unconventional, individual, beautifully suited to their California settings. Walls and sliding partitions of transparent glass catered to the Californian's desire to spend half his life out of doors and made adjacent woods and gardens an intimate part of the interior decoration. Built to cling to steep slopes, many of the houses stepped gracefully down terraced levels, with front entrances and garages on their top floors...
...From the Norwegian words slad (steep terrain) and lorn (track...
...comedy foundation was solid after he had worked as cameraman on 60 or more Laurel & Hardy and Harry Langdon shorts. One of thorn had an unforgettable sequence: Laurel & Hardy delivering a piano up an impossibly long, steep set of narrow outdoor steps. Says Stevens: "The first theater audience that saw it cheered so hard at the finish that the house had to run the two-reeler over again before the customers would look at the feature...