Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wasps-Nest. Deep in a lonely forest stood a haunted house. No one ever came near it until the night this play was produced. Then there came two train bandits, a southern gentlewoman, a low comedy Negress, a skinflint, a town bum, a lovely girl, a lover and four other friends and enemies of theirs. Scarcely any of them knew anyone else was there; all were caused much uneasiness by noises of others seeking lost papers, pouncing on each other, shooting, screaming. Members of the cast not on salary included an apparition shooting up through the floor, a spectre over...
...apparatus consists of a small cylinder about the size of a man's pipe bowl. From the bottom reaches a flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber. As air is breathed over this diaphragm a sound results; moving tongue, lips, teeth and .palate alter such sound into syllables, words, talk. Enunciation is clear, although monotone...
...Brooklyn Bridge and facing the City Hall, stands the Pulitzer Building. Thirty-seven years ago this building was proudly reared by Joseph Pulitzer, superlatively able parent of the present Pulitzers, proprietors of the World. Atop the building glints the famed gold dome, and that remains the same. The deep intestines of the building have been changed. Four years ago executives perceived that equipment in printing, paper and production had exceeded the capacity of the pressrooms. Uneven quality of paper and shaky printing made no daily match for the immaculately dressed Times and Herald-Tribune. Discarding a possibility of deserting...
CONFLICT-Olive Higgins Prouty -Houghton Mifflin (2). The life of Sheilah Miller is a conflict between the violent superficial distaste and the deep, deeply contradictory love which she feels for Felix Nawn. She marries him for martyrdom and her conflict continues; now it is between , her longing for Roger Dallenger and the old torturous instinct to protect the weaknesses of Felix. When Felix learns that the theft which he committed so that he could buy her a car is going to be exposed, he finds the tardy courage to commit suicide. Roger, about to propose to another girl, hears...
Some deposits which are apparently rich and deep prove to be only a thin layer of profitable ore over worthless rock. Electrical instruments are being devised to register not only the presence of metals, but the extent of the ore pocket, and so prevent wasted efforts. Metals have a decided influence upon delicate electrical mechanism, and the various effects of each metal give a key to the nature of the concealed deposit...