Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limitless" capacity for traffic by means of a 1,000-ft. channel, 50 ft. deep at low tide, such that ships can sail directly through without waiting...
...Freedom from any difficulty to navigation from differences in the tidal levels of the two oceans. The maximum difference of water level would not, he declared, produce a current of more than 3.5 knots in a 1,000-ft. channel 50 ft. deep...
...carrier Langley, making three direct hits with ripe tomatoes. Within an hour the information was in the hands of the Canal Zone defenders. It was most disconcerting. The position of the enemy was supposed to remain unknown and the presence of an aeroplane carrier was to have been a deep secret from the Blues. So two days had to be allowed for the Black Fleet to hide itself elsewhere...
...story of the old Scotchwoman from whom all his efforts could not draw a smile, who later said, "What a time I had to keep from laughing at him!" was one of many others which made waves of laughter alternate with moments of deep attention throughout the speech...
...pray for Harvard. To me, the fact that we have the reputation of being "godless", is not a subject for amusement, and I cannot understand the attitude of any Christian Harvard man to whom it is amusing. Prayer, regardless of all other theories, is at least an attitude of deep thought. For us to be amused that we are the object of serious thought of intelligent men, is not only to insult their intelligence, but to assume for ourselves a position of obvious self-satisfaction...