Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cotton prices, which suffered one of their deepest postwar price slumps (as much as $10 a bale) in the futures market a fortnight ago, took another blow last week. The cause: an estimate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that, despite a 14% acreage cut ordered this year to shore up prices, the 1955 cotton crop will be 2% bigger than 1954's 13,696,000 bales. Good weather, increased use of fertilizer and close planting had boosted productivity; the average acre, by the department's estimate, would yield a "fantastic" 405 lbs. v. 341 last year...
...Lieut. Knox read to him from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel, one of Ike's favorite books. Mamie Eisenhower brought one message, from Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, to Ike's attention: "I just now learned of your illness and received this news with the deepest feelings of sorrow. With all our hearts my family and I wish you a speedy recovery and long life...
Last month an unprecedented cloudburst filled Bicycle Lake to the depth of 18 inches in its deepest place. For a while the lake was a saucer of muddy water. Then, Army tank men from nearby Camp Irwin saw the water come to life, seething with millions of wiggly things. They found it swarming with four kinds of shrimp, some of which swam upside down. Others had hard, smooth shells and looked like tiny clams...
...authorities for the frankness of his earlier prints, he undertook these etchings, which he dedicated to the King, maintaining that they meant nothing at all. They seem to have been designed to go undeciphered until long after the artist's life. Recent interpretations conclude that these drawings contain the deepest of Goya's philosophy, in very exacting symbolism...
...fears and resentments of Asia toward the West . . . We can make a case for the very mixed benefits of empire and of economic penetration motivated by the desire for gain. Before God and men, we can make no case for contempt and assumptions of racial superiority. These are the deepest roots of our alienation from Asia. For these there is no answer but repentance...