Word: steepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could and did portray all visible things whatsoever which were chosen by his often niggling patrons. Last week in his native city-quaint, medieval, storied Nuremberg-men paused to remember that Albrecht Dürer died there just four hundred years ago. They prowled up the steep stairs and round the drafty rooms of Dürer's tall house near the Castle Nuremberg. They viewed a great, commemorative collection of his works, and marveled how, at a patron's whim, he could crowd a mighty canvas with all imaginable detail or turn to portray with simple, moving...
...took the $300 Lippincott award, foolishly titled Reverie, showed a woman in a black dress leaning against the back of a sofa; in her right hand was a book she had been reading five minutes before. Since then, the furiously traveling train of her consciousness had rolled down a steep, delicious scenic railway of thoughts and remembrances. Now this train was coasting slowly toward a standstill; the lady's eyes were closed with enigmatic pleasure; her smile would surely have annoyed a clever husband...
...visitors viewed hockey apathetically, since this country entered no team and the Canadian six was obviously unbeatable by Europeans. Norway took opening honors with victory in the military patrol ski test. Twenty miles racing through steep mountain passes with rifles, rations and field equipment did for a French entrant who was carried in by his team companions delirious with exhaustion. Popular protests forecast cancellation of the cruel test in future games. Norwegians also won opening honors in speed skating with Finland on their steel heels, U. S. third...
CONQUISTADOR. American Fantasia ? Philip Guedalla?Harpers ($3). "Tall, unlikely towers steep suddenly out of the mist . . . group themselves into a city," and Historian Guedalla lands at New York to begin three months' inspection of the U. S. He finds Manhattan "an Unsleeping Beauty . . . ever so slightly undis- criminating." Boston is gracious, Kansas City a slim young sister of New York, and Chicago "the fabled melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla...
...four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull on the trains. Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre,? on the Susquehanna River. And so onward, between Senaco and Cayuga of the Finger Lakes in Central New York?trees, orchards, vineyards, farms...