Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe and America. I hail them as manifestations of the indestructible German capacity for work. ... I christen thee Bremen!" One of the two new links between Europe and America was shattered last week, at a single blow. Aboard the nearly completed Europa fire broke out simultaneously at four points, deep in the 'tween decks. Every precaution had been taken against such a conflagration. For months the great shipyard of Blohm & Voss at Hamburg, where the Bremen and Europa lay, had been guarded like a military fortress. No one-not even STIMMING himself-was allowed to enter without showing...
...always repulsed. The only score of the game came in the second quarter on a freak play. After a long exchange of punts, in which A. W. Huguley '31, kicking for Florida, had a decided edge on M. J. Finlayson '32, the Michigan booter, the ball was deep in Michigan territory. On an attempted kick, Finlayson spiraled the ball over his head and it fell back of the goal line, where it was recovered by one of his teammates, giving Florida a safety...
Then, the U.S. Coast Guard sank the British auxiliary schooner I'm Alone, and killed one of her crew, an indefinite distance off the Louisiana coast near "Sixty Deep." Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone...
Every few moments the guests sprang up, raised brimming glasses toward the white oriflamme of the Admiral's forked beard, and downed a deep health to the man whose famed policy of "sea-frightfulness" brought the U.S. into the War. Smiling pinkly behind his white whiskers, the Grand Admiral toped in response to each toast, declared at last to correspondents with perfect poise and pontifical gravity: "Despite the stark materialism of the present day, there still remains in Germany the germ of something that will get us out of the slough...
...color range is limited and there are no circus tints. But often, with deep browns and blues, cream, dull reds and yellows, the tones seem caused by years of exposure to the decorative whims of nature rather than by a deliberate, conscious process...