Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deep seat of the trouble is that 80 years ago Georgia, in trying to open up the northwestern part of her territory, built a railroad ? the Western and Atlantic from Atlanta to Chattanooga. This road is under lease to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, but it is still the property of the State of Georgia. Now Chattanooga wants to condemn land for a street through the railroad yards of Georgia's railway. Georgia asked the Supreme Court for an injunction to prevent it. Chattanooga countered by denying the Supreme Court's jurisdiction under the Eleventh Amendment. Last...
...glowing terms Mme. Viroubova describes the popularity of the Tsar with the Russian people; with almost pathetic directness she depicts the gradual chilling of this apparent deep-rooted loyalty of the masses; she describes, perhaps too perfunctorily, the reasons for the fall of the dynasty. Says she: "Russia, like eighteenth-century France, passed through a period of acute insanity. . . . This insanity was by no means confined to the ranks of the so-called Revolutionists. It pervaded the Duma, the highest ranks of society, Royalty itself (not meaning the immediate family of the Tsar), all as guilty of Russia...
...with regret that our Allies saw us go. When we hauled down the last flag in the territory of the Rhine, they, and I mean by they those in authority at the ceremony from France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Germany, gave evidence of deep sorrow...
...matter boils down to a question of Art as an expression of national impulse or of national consideration. At present the impulse remains financially dominant. The American public has evinced an increasing preference for the Devil over the deep blue sea of censorship...
...Rella), garbed in ecclesiastical red, standing before his surpliced singers, signaled with his arms, and promptly, without a single instrumental note to give the pitch, sounded a full vocal chord of perfectly true intonation. The choir sang with strong and vivid nuances. The basses were marvelous, sometimes like a deep bell note; the tenors were rich and full; the treble voices, of boys and men, were of that clear, sexless beauty that is characteristic of male sopranos and altos. Sometimes in the piano passages the voices moved with the exquisite nuances of violins; then sounded great, chanted chords as incisive...