Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Succession Act to nominate my successor. I have no wish that any one should create any disturbance in the country on my behalf; if any one should use my name in this connection it must be understood that it would be without my agreement, approval or support My deepest regret is that I no longer will be able to serve my people and my country. . . . I can but pray that Siam may have prosperity and that the Siamese people may have happiness...
...under the direction of experts; time enough to fulfill its task in a dignified, adequate manner; a twelve-year course of study; . . . the almost unanimous co-operation of parents; . . . a pastor of great comprehension (himself a doctor of philosophy and a trained educationalist) who makes the Sunday School his deepest interest...
Harrison himself is convinced that The Green Pastures is divinely inspired. With the deepest humility, he feels that God has selected him to spread the Word through the theatre. Piety prevented him from accepting the part at first. Later, he says, "when Mr. Connelly 'phoned me on that Monday night, I didn't answer, but something in my soul replied: 'I'll stick with you through thick and thin, Mr. Connelly...
...MacNaughton's achievement was to mine at a profit 3,000,000 tons annually of low-grade ore, averaging less than 1% copper, from the deepest mine in North America, the famed Conglomerate shaft which has passed a vertical depth of 5,000 ft. Such lean ore had never before been mined so far down. In open-pit mining, which means simply shoveling away a hill of exposed ore (as at Bingham, Utah), lodes down to 8/10 of 1% can be handled profitably. Deep-vein mining entails the cost of tunneling, drilling, blasting, hoisting, ventilating. Mining engineers consider...
...wrote Don Quixote: "A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, worked stoutly as an Algerine slave; with stout cheerfulness endured famine and nakedness and the world's ingratitude; and sitting in gaol, with one hand left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote." Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty...