Word: steepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealthy American oil men, Arthur and Joseph Steep, of Oil City, Pa., and their pilot, Gabriel Poulain, were killed in a crash near Le Bourget, France-the fatal end of a 30-mile pleasure trip. Poulain achieved many exploits during the War, and on July 9, 1921, won the Peugeot prize of 10,000 francs for flying a distance of 35 feet and rising more than three feet in a man-driven airplane. This was achieved in the " aviette," a combination of bicycle and biplane, which rose after a rapid run on the ground. Poulain's death will...
Coming down the inside passage from Sitka, the transport Henderson made several stops in the narrow inlets where the steep, pine-covered slopes of mountains made good anchorages. The voyage extended over two days, and members of the party had opportunity to undertake a little fishing from small boats. The President himself sacrificed fishing in order to work on the speeches which he intended to deliver on the Pacific Coast...
Next day the President bad the pleasure of driving the electric locomotive of his train for twelve miles- down the steep grade of the St. Joseph River and the fire-charred slopes of the Bitter Root Mountains...
...less than Machu Picchu, the old capital city which Bingham discovered, the Hub of the Inca universe. You will remember from my earlier letters that the University was situated on a spur of the same mountain-unit on which the city was perched, but separated from it by a steep ridge which made it almost inaccessible. The tunnel had been built underneath to communicate between...
...close on Siemen's heels at the three-mile mark near the golf course, but fell to the rear shortly afterward. The pace was too fast for O'Brien of Yale, a veteran harrier, and at the four-mile mark he collapsed-soon after coming down the steep grade from the Belmont Golf Links...