Word: deepful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make a study of undersea rocks. Last week Dr. Norman D. Newell, of New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, was studying fossil seashells he had just brought back from the Peruvian Andes. They told him about the strata (possibly oil-bearing) deep under the Amazon Basin hundreds or thousands of miles away. They also suggested that an ancient ice age once chilled the sea water right across the equator...
...that the difference between a great and a merely good passer is in the eyes. Chapp's brown eyes, in one panoramic glance, spot his receivers tearing downfield and the defenders rushing in to nail him. Chapp makes fine use of his blockers, sensing when to fade deep or step up inside to fire the ball. Like a good baseball catcher, he throws off his right ear, with a snap motion...
...Varsity A squad held its first scrimmage outside of Saturday combat in several weeks. Last year two or three midweek contact sessions were the general rule. The coaching staff repeatedly announced this fall that contact work would be resumed "as soon as the team was at least two deep in each position." The prospect of losing the last tackle or fullback was too frightening to permit much more than long signal drills...
Frustrated by a multitude of injuries, the head gridiron, mentor announced earlier this week, "I will hold a scrimmage as soon as I can get together enough able-bodied men to have a squad at least two deep at every position...
Gilding the lily, the athletic directors have placed the boys half-way up and on the sidelines for the Rutgers game, instead of tucking them away somewhere deep in the bowl where the game is but a rumor. The cynics who look for evil motives may try to content themselves with the one hitch of a 25 cent tariff on each boy, but that goes to the government by law, and nobody around Cambridge receives a cent...