Word: deep
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...contract speed is 14.5 knots per hour, but a higher rate is hoped for. To obtain this a remarkably large propeller will be used, the blades of which are protected by a deep false keel. The boat differs from the new Weld launch in that she has a round stern and is intended to travel on her own wave, which it is admitted will be a large one. The Weld launch, on the contrary, is designed to make a small wave which will be of advantage to the crews...
...extract taken from the book published by the literary committee, and now on sale at all the stores. "It is interesting to note that a Greek translation of "Iphigenie" by Johnannes Papadopaulos was among the books which Goethe, in 1819, presented to Harvard University 'as a mark of deep interest in its high literary character, and in the successful zeal it has displayed through so long a course of years for the promotion of solid and elegant education...
...lecturer went on to speak of his first meeting with M. Villiers de I' Isle Adam, describing the man and his character. He told of his strange conversation, his terrible irony and deep scorn for his century, which replaced the cult of idealism by materialism. In nearly all his works are to be found these characteristic features. In his "Contes Cruels" and "Histoires Insolites," Villiers de I' Isle Adam is full of irony, especially in that stange "Tribulat Bonhouet...
Part of Dr. Agassiz's work has consisted in sounding and trawling in shallow and deep water for animal life. The result of the trawls were, however, very barren, both outside and inside the lagoons. The temperature of the water at 500 fathoms was found to be quite generally 40 degrees Farenheit. During the trip many photographs of the structure and mode of formation of the Paumotu Islands have been taken, and Mr. Mayer has devoted much time to drawing the medusae which have been collected...