Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15,000 ft., equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable for lowering them all. Lest this cable break or tangle, an electric switch in the "bell" would disengage its prodigiously weighty lower shell, allowing the upper half and its occupants to bob upwards in safety. Three electrically driven...
...first Dr. Hartman's explorations will be archaeological-in the watery streets of Paleopolis, earliest Greek colony in Italy; now on the deep bottom of the Bay of Naples; and at Jerba, long-drowned port of Punic Carthage...
...burning well is about a mile deep and has a pressure of about 50 atmospheres.* The damage may amount to $1,500,000. When Mr. Tucker left, the fire was visible for 45 miles...
...Geneva, close by the Secretariat of the League of Nations, stands a handsome villa, the Villa Bartholoni. In some quarters it is expected that the future assembly hall of the League will be erected on the very ground where the Villa Bartholini rises in modest pulchritude below the deep green mountain walls, the snow-capped peaks. Not immediately, however, will the villa be razed. Last week it was rented for the month of September to an American, a woman who wished to be at hand to observe the workings of the Sixth Assembly of the League, who came...
...score at that point was 4-2 in her favor in the first set, and Miss Wills was just beginning a rally with which she obviously intended to take the set. But ho! Miss Ryan led the national champion up to the net with short chops, trapped her with deep chops to the baseline, won the set, 6-3. In the next set, she again carried the attack to Miss Wills. Her low, back-bouncing chops on the wet court made the champion scoop up returns as if with a trowel, kept her lumbering from baseline to net until...