Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persistence of that prehistoric savagery that makes it seem necessary, in this modern day, still to clothe ourselves in the skins of the animals and to eat their flesh. Society is so organized as to make it seem necessary for thousands of shouting, cursing men to stand knee-deep in blood, dealing ferocious blows right and left upon millions of shrieking animals in order that...
...causes are not necessarily to be found in a deep-laid capitalist plot. Rather, they arise out of the present course of study and the insufficiency of funds to carry out its complexities. Labor insists on many technical course, middle-class people want cultural courses. Between the two, harassed school officials have been forced to take refuge in a highly organized system of education in order to handle an increased demand for varied studies in the face of a constant supply on money...
...curtailed by the silly audience, which goes to laugh and giggle through a tragedy. When earnest efforts meet with gales of laughter, and actor's soul curls up inside him. He learns to speak his lines; not live them. Real beauty on the stage cannot exist without deep, silent appreciation in the audience, which reaches across the foot-lights to the players, helping them on. A rustling, noisy audience, whispering, coming in late, going out early, is a purely American creation and hardly one to boast of. In Europe the drama meets with greater refinement and intelligence...
...star Mira was discovered to vary in intensity by the astronomer Fabricus in 1596. It is a deep red color and fluctuates in periods of eleven months -is sometimes 200 times brighter at maximum than at minimum light. Mira has a companion star very close to it, which was discovered at Lick Observatory...
Ever since the unusual stimulation provided by the World War, the deep-shaft, low grade copper mines of this country have found the going hard, with production costs close to market quotations for the red metal. Discouraged producers, especially in Michigan, are now turning to tariff legislation as the only visible means of running their properties at a profit. The movement has resulted in a bill introduced by Representative W. Frank James of Michigan, to place a tariff on imported copper of 6? a pound...