Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...older scientists, reported Whitman, have the deepest spiritual awareness. "Most of them had gone through the phase of agnosticism. They had moved on." Said one elderly geneticist: "When we think we know a lot, we're agnostic. When we learn how insignificant our knowledge is-we return to God." It is the cocksure youngster in the laboratory, Whitman found, who says, "How wonderful I am! Look what I've found in the atom!" The old man says, "Isn't God wonderful-look what He's put in the atom...
...Philippines, other scientific fishermen were combing even deeper waters. Dr. Anton F. Bruun of the Danish research ship Galathea reported that there seems to be no limit to the depths that life can sink. His men dredged the bottom of the Mindanao trench, the deepest part (35,400 ft.) of the ocean, never explored before. They hauled up 17 sea anemones, 61 sea cucumbers, two mollusks and one crustacean. All were comparatively fragile creatures, but they did not seem to mind living in darkness and cold more than six miles down, where the water pressure is more than seven tons...
...infield practice began, a man squeezed into the aisle next to us, in the deepest right centerfield bleachers, leaned over to the left to hear a very noisy conversation which had continued through the speeches, even through the National Anthein. "One hundred to sixty," he said...
...currently studying the effects of this pressure on electrical resistences. Such high pressures are large enough to effect the properties of materials considerably. Except for a fraction of a percent all the matter in the universe exists under pressures of below 100,000 atmospheres. The pressure at the deepest part of the ocean is only 1,000 atmospheres and only double this in the explosion chamber...
...Many a man may look respectable," says Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, himself the most respectable of cadgers, "and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase." Lord Emsworth opines: "Speak civilly to blondes, and they will speak civilly to you." And one of the deepest truths in all Wodehouse is expressed by the Oldest Member-a figure who sounds suspiciously like the author himself, now 69. "The true golfing spirit," says the Oldest Member. "That is what matters in this life...