Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deep ravine of Wall Street, it is an old story of how Claude H. Foster founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co. on the modest sum of $1,500. Wall Street was equally cognizant that that Company earned $1,086,195 last year, representing an interest of 72,413% on the original investment; that Mr. Foster was the sole owner of this thriving concern, which manufactured three-quarters of the world's automobile snubbers and shock-absorbing devices. But even Wall Street, which hears many strange things without a metaphorical flicker of its eyes, opened them wide in astonishment last week...
...Ellison that netted another run. The next inning saw five tallies swell the Crimson budget. A base on balls, an error and a perfect bunt by Toulmin loaded the bases with none out. Zarakov connected with one of Presbrey's offerings and while the ball was being recovered in deep center field, four runs came across. One of these was a run for only a few minutes, for the umpire found that Hoffman, who had been on second had neglected to touch third base. Todd made up for this error of omission a moment later when he smashed another drive...
...conditions for oceanographic work were "almost miraculous"; deep sea fish had been forced to the surface by the enormous disturbance...
...Kentucky, diggers from the University of Kentucky unearthed 21 Indian skeletons, sitting up in their graves amid shell and bone implements and ornaments unlike any ever before found. The graves, discovered two feet deep in cultivated fields, were in an area of Mason County, near May's Lick, where mastodon bones were once found...
...Century dictionary I read as follows, "Gadfly. The popular name of sundry flies which goad or sting domestic animals. They are comparatively large, very active, voracious and bloodthirsty, with great powers of biting, the mouth parts being highly developed. They also have great powers of flight. The bite is deep and painful, often drawing blood, though not poisonous. In strictness, only the females are gadflies, the males being smaller and quite inoffensive, living on the juices of plants. There are more than a thousand species...