Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of the Rothstein enterprises were deep in debt. His election bets were calculated to pull him out of a bad hole. Necessarily, he was slow about taking up his IOU's. The trouble was, he had been slow that way before. His tongue could be as sharp in debt as it could be smooth in velvet. The creditors grew restive. They persuaded George McManus, whom Rothstein trusted, to call him over for a "creditors' meeting" one evening last month. Rothstein got the call in the little restaurant and started over to the Park Central Hotel where McManus...
...could not always overcome the love of their converts for certain native, non-Indian, divinities. The new members of the Buddhist community could not forget some of the gods worshipped by their ancestors for many generations, and means had to be found to reconcile the new faith with such deep-rooted sympathies...
...Pressure as high as 600,000 pounds per square inch has been obtained. This corresponds, for example, to the pressure of an atmosphere 5000 miles high or an ocean 250 miles deep. An ordinary steam boiler has a pressure of some 400 pounds per square inch, and concrete collapses under 2000 pounds per square inch...
...trial (at which he slept) for sedition with other Masses editors during the War, and his eccentricities, such as lying nakedly asprawl on his hill for sunbaths, make his Connecticut neighbors view "that c'toonist" with some alarm. They are reassured, though somewhat puzzled by his deep vein of quizzical, kindly humor. His life has been most unconventional, they feel, but they know it has been rich and gentle...
Reaching the two-mile high elevation of the South Pole is only an incidental goal. Amundsen was there in December 1911; Scott in January 1912. Shackleton almost got there in January 1909. All three, like Commander Byrd, approached through the Ross Sea, the deep bite into the Asiatic side of Antarctica. Explorer Wilkins is trying from the American side. His distance, from Deception Island, to the Pole is approximately 1,900 miles (air way). That is about the same as the distance ships must go between Galveston and Manhattan, Baltimore and the Barbados...