Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marshall had a horror of being buried in the ground. More than once, he expressed a deep-seated aversion to having his body rest in the earth. Only his family and a few of his closest friends knew this, but it was that feeling on his part that caused the family to place his body in the chapel at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, where it now rests. . . "I am convinced that a sufficient number of supporters of the idea will be found in the United States to erect a tomb where his body may hest throughout the years...
...reconstruction of the devastated regions and receipts of German reparations. The expenditures for reconstruction always came up to the budget. The receipts from reparations never did. The result was a constant deficit, although the budget apparently balanced. Finally the extraordinary budget was abolished, but it had sunk France so deep in the quagmire of finance that a call had to be made on Wizard Caillauxtion always came up to the budget. The receipts from reparations never did. The result was a consistant deficit, although the budget apparently balanced. Finally the extraordinary budget was abolished, but it had sunk France...
...best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children; a band of bearded woodcutters hupging a fire that flames scarlet among Alpine snows. The genius of the family, Theodore F. Powys, appears in the journal, now plunged in abysmal moroseness, now making...
...Germany a reputation which he did not live to enjoy in his native France. These conflicts having somewhat subsided, in favor of Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated out of deep understanding and sympathy for people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian crags. The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred...
...Haldane, popular Cambridge biological litterateur, expressed (in picturesque terms) the well known fact that the strength of an organism is not constant with its bulk. Said he: "A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal...