Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concrete, to cover 100 or more acres and be anchored at intervals across the Atlantic. Brilliant searchlights would radiate from them, and to them would swoop ocean-crossing aircraft, heavy-laden with freight and passengers. In the seadromes' vitals, which would extend so far down into the deep ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer Armstrong believes that where distance is the object...
Thus wrote super-Pan Italian poet-soldier-philanderer Gabriele d'Annunzio, not long ago, and his versified words, deep cut in granite, now adorn the Brenner Monument...
...Roberts, 150 Newfoundlanders bundled on their oilskins and went down the beach through a driving rain to drag in the monstrous sea-serpent of twisted copper, brass, guttapercha and "permalloy" brought in to them by the cable-layer Colonia. The Colonia then plowed off eastward to splice a deep-sea section with the other shore end at Penzance. In August she will lay a final section from Bay Roberts to Manhattan...
Cable-laying and tending is a deep sea art. The Colonia is continuously on service, in season and out, finding breaks and mending them. So carefully is each mile of cable charted that little time is lost grappling up the line in two or three miles of ocean. But most breaks occur in shallows. The cable will be scarred or ground in two by icebergs; snagged by fishing trawls; ravaged by boring worms. Once a whale's corpse was found looped in the line. Once a shark's tooth was embedded at a break...
Perhaps Jones reflected in similarwise as he got ready to make his last drive. The gallery had formed before his eyes in two deep banks between which trickled a tapering lane, the fairway...