Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light blue ether above Fort Tilden, Rockaway Point anti-air defense base of Manhattan, soared, twisted, wobbled a deep blue cone of canvas, 15 ft. long, tapering in diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of rope, flew Air Lieut. Archie Smith in a Martin Bomber. From below anti-aircraft gunners launched torrents of gun fire, exploded thousands of pounds of powder into billions of cubic feet of gas. Sweated, toiled, emitted words peculiar to gunners...
...Admiralty came to a decision: a keg of indigestible dynamite is to be placed in the cast iron belly of the U20 so that the little weasel of the sea may sink in agony and lie far down in the green waters with the other little devils of the deep. No more need man-made leviathans fear death from its speeding projectiles nor its own broken and scaly body...
...walls necessary total over a mile in length and at to upper pool must be 70 ft. high. The power dam is 3,600 ft. To build in the concrete water gates, mountains of rock would have to be dropped in the tideways, some of which are 200 feet deep...
...business man is duly impressed by this carefully prepared scientific explanation of what happened four years ago. But in forming an opinion as to the future, he is more apt to watch his truck driver's neck or his stenographer's legs than the deep-revolving historical conclusions of even the most eminent statisticians...
...village of Montgomery, suburbs of Cincinnati, villagers dug last week deep into their pockets, found many dollars. Some of this money they put into a purse; the rest they invested in a new automobile, fully equipped...