Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great things for liberal causes. Above all, he has proved that his temperament and the bent of his mind compel him to the ways of liberalism. He has done very much to improve labor and social economic conditions, particularly for women; under the fiercest tests, he has shown a deep understanding of political liberty; he has infused his government with human sympathy which transcends even tolerance. His mind is fertilized by the concrete event. The impact of specific problems of government leads him to full inquiry, and freedom from obstinate prepossessions, like Mr. Hoover's passionate fear of government ownership...
...solid paragraph of figures]. . . . These figures illustrate our progress. . . . [nine more paragraphs of figures and material items]. . . . These figures, which would be cold and uninteresting in themselves, when we realize that they illustrate the life and development of our country cannot fail to have a deep fascination...
...Dutch costume, buxom, healthy girls in voluminous skirts, aprons, peaked caps. He loved little, angular Dutch gables, the wide Dutch sky over the flatlands. He knew an advanced, much-mooted artist named Rembrandt and often bought his etchings which caught the homely beauties of life in Holland in deep chiaroscuro. Jan Six also collected many contemporary paintings. Holland from his doorstep and on canvas was shining, sunny, softly reflected in the canals...
Forthwith, from many a cover, svelte females simpered; deep-browed males smirked. All were ruminant. Their cud, readers learned, was PRIMLEY'S PEPSIN GUM. And Pioneer Thompson's illustrations dared even more. They caused apple-cheeked lasses to pedal CRESCENT, RAMBLER bicycles. Other lasses donned DR. WARNER'S CORALIE CORSETS, "Fitted to Living Models." Subscribers responded; magazines prospered...
...Tuscany. Synonymous, too, have been Carrara and Fabbricotti. For of all the families who have hacked and hewed in the quarries of Carrara, the family of the Fabbricotti is oldest and greatest. When the two chiefs of the Fabbricotti-Guido Murray and Carlo Andrea-ride on horseback to their deep pits in the hills, they may reflect that their ancestors have ridden in just such a way, to the same pits, for some 500 years. It was in the 15th century that the head of the Fabbricotti line appeared before the Duchess who ruled over Carrara.' Humbly, he besought...