Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Development of the Mississippi as the north-south trunk line and the "modernization" of its tributaries, to create a 9,000-mi. water transportation system in the heart of the U. S. Of this, 3,800 mi. now have a channel six feet deep or better, leaving 5,000 mi. for U. S. development Chief tributaries for improvement: Illinois (Chicago-to-the-Gulf route), Missouri (high into the wheat country), Arkansas (west to the oil fields), Tennessee (through the coal lands). Time limit: five years...
Professor Lowes has made a very definite impression not only as a scholar but as a personality. His most not able achievements, of course, have been in his research. But both in his books and o the lecturing platform he has demonstrated that if he digs deep for erudition he brings out the interest of his subject without the dust that has settled on his remote sources...
...right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars of savings to Mr. Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable he is having laid to hold his floating island to its anchors. Those anchors are to be huge round bobbins which will dig into red clay of the submerged...
...Manhattan's socially outworn Riverside Drive, a skyscraper-Museum, dedicated to one man, was formally opened last week. The man was Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich (TIME, July 1), famed Russian painter-writer-explorer-philosopher. The brick skyscraper, designed by Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, uniquely graduated in tone from deep purple at the base to white at the top, symbolizes "growth," houses more than 1,000 of Professor Roerich's exotic paintings, is dedicated to international culture, world peace. Present at the dedication was the Professor himself and his two apple-cheeked sons. His audience wandered through the museum...
...Guider Park, Brooklyn, one Matteo Aurierno, 26, was found wandering in the dark, bleeding from deep stabs in his neck and hands. At the police station he related that, while strolling, he was thrown down and slashed by a "personable" woman who then fled, chortling...