Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sounding. Into Manhattan steamed the French liner Paris, bearing storm scars, notables, a squad of German engineers and a new German device for deep-sea sounding with which the engineers had experimented on the way over from Havre. This device consisted of a gun on the port side, a microphone abreast on the keel's starboard side, a dial on the bridge. The gun fired a cartridge overside, which exploded a fathom under water. The microphone registered this explosion's last echo from the bottom, permitting the depth to be computed in fathoms...
...seven additional secretaries to answer with natural courtesy the thousands upon thousands of letters relating to his religious views. A few days later, in a good, substantial California rainstorm, in the face of his wife's restraining pleadings, he motored from his Santa Rosa home, hitting water two feet deep, to San Francisco in order to read an exposition of his views to the congregation of the First Congregational Church. The auditorium was jammed by his admirers...
...this dream not comparable to the Vatican's ideal of the Kingdom of Christ? Down came the Cardinal's eyebrows into a deep frown, and ire flashed from the darkness. "How dare you make that comparison?" he thundered: "The idea of Christ as King is as old as the Christian world. Empires have passed and others will pass and be forgotten, but the Kingdom of Christ will live...
...museum is 234 feet across the front and 123 feet deep. The front portion along Quincy Street will contain two stories of exhibition galleries with a top light furnishing the light for the upper story. Behind the exhibition part of the building is an in interior court, 57 by 44 feet, surrounded on four sides by two stories of arcades built of Italian Travertine. The rear portion will contain the library, Class 'rooms, and executive offices. A night entrance in the rear of the building will make it possible to open the lecture hall in the evenings without throwing open...
...theory, long deep-rooted in American education, that discipline for its own sake holds a legitimate place in the college curriculum, crops out repeatedly in discussions of university policy. Recent press comments have viewed with considerable deprecation new departures at several institutions concerning attendance at classes. Similar changes have likewise raised the huc and cry that discipline must not be sacrificed...