Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hastings obtained from Germany a zebra stallion which he bred to white Arabian mares, percherons and common farm mares, the percherons bearing the best foals. The offspring resemble the ordinary mule in their deep chests, large necks, strong legs, but retain the gaudy stripes of their wild African forebears...
...swarmed at the hips of Zeus and between the legs of his throne, executed by Panaeus, nephew and assistant of Phidias. Scholars have hinted that the figure owed its fame to these entertaining adornments, but Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely as a wave...
...Joseph has, with characteristically sensational effulgence, bedizened the new galleries in green marble doorways, marble parquets, gilt ceilings, much after the fashion of his celebrated "torture rooms" deep within his fancy Fifth Avenue establishment. Of course there were paintings at Tate too-especially, 14 Sargents whose noble canvases have not become so numerous on the art-dealers' shelves as to be in need of much publicity, preceding facile disposal. A notable picture hung was that of the beheading of John, the Baptist, by Puvis de Chavannes. Degas was well represented as well as some brilliant paintings by Bancini, Daumiur...
...first scientific survey of the world's richest silver mines, in Mexico. Workings begun centuries ago by the Toltecs still produce voluminously. At Guanajuato, 12 hours from Mexico City, Dr. Foshag will visit the huge Veta Madre (Mother Vein) where the work shaft is 1,700 ft. deep and 30 in diameter through solid rock. He will see the magnificent Cathedral of Chihuahua, built in the 18th Century by two escaped convicts who, having stumbled upon the mines now called for Santa Eulalia, promised the edifice to a priest if he would intercede for them with the Government...
Sixteen huge thighs kicked as one, sixteen monumental wrists snapped down, eight long oars feathered the water of Lake Carnegie and dug in deep for another stroke. The crew of the University of Washington was rowing against Princeton. They had arrived from the West Coast a week before to perfect their technic and between spells of rowing their large shapes had been seen posing about the town in sweaters adorned with little oars-a crew of giants. Two of them were six feet five inches high; their average height was six feet three; even the coxswain...