Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Work was said to be progressing on the 2,400 foot standard guage cable railway on Thorn Mountain's steep slopes at Jackson. The owner hopes to have his railway, which will tap many new slopes on Thorn and Middle Mountains, operating sometime this month...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics) were within 3.5 points of their 1920 peak. The grain prices had gone far above their post World War I high. Though the break had come too fast for official tabulation to keep up, it was unofficially reckoned that the slide so far was as steep...
From the dusty lowlands of San Diego County, the road leads up Palomar Mountain in sharp, steep curves. Near the top the air turns cold; the dry, thorny brush of southern California yields to evergreen forests. Deer bounce across the roadway; squirrels peek from the incense cedars; through the primitive underbrush pads an occasional mountain lion. But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space-man's deepest look at the unknown universe he lives...
Astronomer-Ballistician Hubble came back from his second war with the Medal of Merit, and settled down. With his wife, the former Grace Burke, he lives in a charming mission-style house in San Marino, near Pasadena, on the edge of a steep geological fault which he thinks may be incubating an earthquake...
...Norman Angell, Nobel Peace Prizewinner of 1933, suggested that peace might now be preserved by avoiding a "policy of indefinite retreat before Russian power." "Otherwise," he wrote in The Steep Places (Harper; $3), "there will happen what happened before the second World War: we acquiesce in the advance of a hostile system because we insist that it is not so bad. Then when it is on top of us, we conclude that it is very bad indeed and decide to resist. But. . . aggression has attained a momentum too great to stop...