Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Hopkins comes of a family of seven brothers (City Manager William R. Hopkins of Cleveland is one). When he undertakes to present a play, it generally receives every advantage of generous production and intelligent direction. Last year he gave Deep River, the Stallings-Harling opera of native music. With George Manker Watters. he collaborated in writing Burlesque. Probably the common inference that Mr. Watters wrote the play and Mr. Hopkins rewrote it, is correct...
...friction of rock layers sliding on one another generates at least 1,600° Fahr. Such a hole would produce 4,000 horsepower if only 20% efficient, making steam of any quantity of water piped down it. If such a bore were impracticable, two larger shafts, five miles deep, could be dug by laborers in heat proof, air-cooled suits, and connected by long horizontal passages. At five miles, a heat between 400° and 450° would be obtained. Capable of producing 4,500 horsepower, this type of heat mine would function for 1,-000 years, would cost about...
...darkest exhibit was Mol-lienisia slenops from Louisiana, a two-inch blob of midnight. The brighest was Platypoecilus rubra from the West Indies, deep-burning vermilion and red gold...
...Nature produces her best efforts without regard to the audience. That explains the curious comedy sensitive people feel when dolts posturing on high mountains, or above deep chasms breathe: "Wonderful . . . isn't it glorious?" Somehow compliments seem a trifle impudent as well as totally irrelevant...
...French liner France brought to port a deep sea puzzle for science. Eyewitnesses gave data...