Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which flow southward into the Black Sea. While the Ukraine looks flat, it is actually underlaid by layers of rock sloping slightly upward to the east. These layers overlap one another like shingles and the rivers run beside the overlaps, with one low bank subject to flooding and one steep bluff on which most of the big towns lie. But the high bank in each case is on the west so that it presents no obstacle to an invasion from that direction. It offers an actual advantage, for when troops reach the bluff at any point their artillery can command...
...every Sunday driver knows, U. S. roads have not kept pace with U. S. cars. Motorists long for high-speed roadways-without steep hills, sharp turns, crossroads, bottlenecks. This week, with the opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, some of them got what they wanted...
...flat that little more than smoothing and a bit of leveling were needed. Above the malaria level, the airport surface is so hard that a spike can scarcely be driven into it. As yet, the engineers have found no nearby water supply. After building a road up the steep face of the plateau, Pan Am hired 380 natives (all who could be found and persuaded to work) to build hangars and clear two 6,200-foot runways. Those with malaria worked three hours a day; those without, five hours. Because they had no place to spend their wages...
...World War I the U. S. economy underwent a steep price inflation. It served the purpose of stimulating swift increases of production and was not checked until War Industries Board Head Bernard Mannes Baruch negotiated fixed prices with steel, copper, other major industries...
...Favored by special steam ship rates and lower-cost accommodation, students can complete two to five years of graduate work in Tokyo at a fraction of the cost of such schooling in England or the United States." Tuition at the Government-financed Imperial Universities, whose entrance examinations are too steep for most foreign scholars, is dirt cheap: the equivalent of 27 U. S. dollars. Other universities are more expensive. What the Institute neglected to mention is that living by U. S. standards costs approximately $1,800 a year, half that amount if the student forsakes his Occidental mode of life...