Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swayed by his suggestions. Almost everybody, unless he is confident of being able to resist and does resist, can be hypnotized into the first "light" state; three persons out of four can be brought to the second "deep" state; and one out of two will go into the deepest trance of all, the somnambulistic. Highly susceptible people may hypnotize themselves, accidentally or intentionally, by staring at a bright object...
...volumes of water from the seas. What caused the rest of the marine subsidence remains a mystery. In any case, it appears that the Pleistocene rivers coursed through land that is now submerged and many of them carved deep gorges. That the Hudson carved one of the biggest and deepest was known as long ago as 1882, when soundings were made by the old line-&-sinker method, but an accurate survey had to wait for the development of continuous echo-sounders...
...theory Britain's Budget is one of her deepest State secrets. Only the Prime Minister and half a dozen of the highest Treasury officers are supposed to know its make-up before it is "opened" in the House of Commons. Until the moment of delivery it is kept locked in an ancient red morocco budget box. To be sure that the box will open at the right moment, a Government locksmith calls annually on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to oil the lock and fiddle with...
...Vought Corsair biplane scuttled along a runway, picked up its tail and leaped aloft after an amazingly short take-off run of 50 yd. The pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another 1830 Wasp on a test block made spectators...
Proclaimed by critics as the greatest creation of its kind, comparable only to the famous B Minor Mass, the "St. Matthew Passion" is a musical drama which has been described as "the deepest expression of devotional feeling that the art of music affords...