Word: steepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alvaro Obregon, Mexican President: "Near Tepic, State of Nayarit, I narrowly escaped death, when several cars of a train in which I was traveling became uncoupled from the engine on a steep grade. Carrying me, the cars dashed madly down the incline for several hundred yards, eventually came to a halt...
...flip of a coin had made Princeton the "home" team, but it was the Crimson that seemed more at home after the game had begun. Todd roamed the spacious left field stretches like a veteran and twice he climbed the steep bank to make sensational clutches under the shadow of the fence, Hammond patrolled second base admirably. In the third and again in the tenth he robbed Dins more of apparently certain hits. The latter play, a back-hand catch of a vicious liner, brought the crowd to its feet with a spontaneous roar of applause. Jenkins was a bulwark...
...pays for his vanity o ver thirteen thousand dollars, so that the belted earl whose coronet has come down from father to son through dim and distant generations can comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members of the common herd...
...Algiers on a steep mount overhanging the city was placed, centuries ago, an image of Isis done in the blackest of black basalt. Early in the Christian Era, the image was accepted by the African Christians as an image of the Blessed Virgin...
...season according to Coach Haines of the 150 pound Freshman crews. He also intimated to the CRIMSON reporter that this was one of the reasons for the decline of the rowing at Harvard. "At Cornell," he explained, "the college is situated on the top of a very steep hill, making the use of automobiles impossible. A weekly "movie" is about all the lighter diversion they get; and still more important, the boathouse is two miles from the college and the oarsmen are required to walk both ways. This is a great aid to conditioning...