Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another day dawned and there lay the cruiser Memphis, smart as a yacht. The Texas, massive manofwar, waited respectfully far offshore. The embarkation ceremonies were stiff but sun-warmed. The Texas poured out a torrent of black smoke and clove the deep blue Gulf for gay Havana...
...modernity. Still credulity and belief have their limitations and even the imagination talks when asked to solve the enigmatical causa causans of the enforcement of compulsory golf at Annapolis. It is not unassuming to picture natty mid-shipment pursuing the elusive golf pellet over the briny billows of the deep. No ardent enthusiast of the green has falled, at some moment or other, to meditate upon the possibility of a rolling sea suddenly solidified, but the very idea of battleships being equipped with golf courses, midshipmen adding knickerbockers to their accouterment, and the employment of Marines as caddies would have...
...bunch Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...
...wider world, while among graduate students he trained an active group of acknowledged experts in the history of international relations. Many students he inspired and guided to enter the foreign service of their country. Both students and colleagues found in him a firm friend, and hold him in deep, and, enduring affection...
However, to anyone who has finished a volume of Hardy, his death comes as something more than a news event. When one recalls the vivid and deep impression indelibly left upon the mind by his masterly novels and the awe and admiration felt for the author the loss becomes a personal one. For while Thomas Hardy in real life might be described as retiring and shy, his dominating philosophy of life and strength of character move through his works of prose and poetry like the spirit of the storm and the whirlwind. And, although gathered to Olympian heights to join...