Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very strange word-"bathysophical". What meaning that can convey to those who have little Latin and less Greek I should not venture to say. Search in the dictionaries and Concise Oxford, Webster Century is in vain. The contex would give to one knowing its Greek roots the meaning "deep sea enthusiast". Then why not use that adjective? But "bathysophical" requires some mental conjuring. And then you are uncertain...
...read with deep feeling your account of the persecution of a Chinese Laundryman in your Aug. 10 issue, Page...
First Wayfarer: "There'll be no movies tonight?Asakusa Park (Nipponese Broadway) is running water a foot deep...
Body changes are more spectacular. A door will be fitted for the first time next to the driver in the roadster and touring model. The Tudor (two door "coach") and the Fordor (four door sedan) will blossom respectively into "deep channel green" and "rich Windsor maroon." Heretofore all Fords have been black. All but these two models will remain so. Other "radical improvements" are: (1) inch larger steering-wheels on all models; (2) seats 4 inches closer to the ground and more ^ reclining; (3) radiators⅝ of an inch higher, and nickeled in closed models; (4) gas tanks under cowl...
...liked the look of that shaggy carry to the sixth green, or that oblique yawn in the eighth fairway that it took 450 tons of sand to fill? Had he often made a more perilous march than down the 601-yard twelfth, where they had smoothed the deep bunkers to dissemble innocence and the far pin retreated like a mirage...