Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspension bridge over Chasm Falls in Estes Park, Colo, seven hikers were enjoying the moonlit scene one night in 1933. Suddenly the bridge collapsed. Down into the swirling water 40 ft. below plunged Sisters Adele and Virginia Fowlkes of Denver, one Marion Scilley from Loveland. Last week on behalf of Sister Adele, who received severe leg and spine injuries from the fall, Sister Virginia appeared before the House Claims Committee in Washington, retold her experiences...
...water by the time required for a sound to travel to the bottom and bounce back. The depth appears continuously on a dial and the profile of the sea floor is translated to a chart. Scrawled before the Oceanographer's surveyors was a new picture of the mighty chasm that was carved in what is now ocean bottom by the Hudson River...
...allowing this rich and growing market to be weaned away from them by enterprising Europeans, American merchants have further demonstrated their amazing indifference to the future. Years of neglect and misunderstanding have opened a chasm between the two American whose felicitous closing will require all the diplomatic skill at Mr. Hull's command...
...below, into scrambling over great boulders onto the ledge. It might have rested there comfortably, with dew to lick and foliage to nibble, until it got well enough to scramble back the way it had come. But Man was everywhere. Men gathered by hundreds along the path on the chasm's opposite bank. Men threw a threatening bridge straight across to the ledge. Worst of all, they descended terrifyingly from...
...lure. Park officials were deluged with rescue suggestions. One man wanted to put an opiate in the deer's water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly on the chasm's opposite bank. Two taxidermists from Elmira brought a pair of stuffed deer on rollers. Park Superintendent Frank Haight had almost decided that the deer should be left alone until it recovered from its lameness, when a message came from Albany ordering all rescue efforts to cease until the arrival...