Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These arguments are typical. They are endeavors to rationalize irrational prejudices. And they mask the real issues. Down deep in their hearts the antagonists of birth control are merely oppressed with fear for their miserable souls...
...whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over the world seeking people to tell it to. . . ." The Book of Acts is as full of names as a map is full of cities and out of ten scores of names Bonn Byrne makes vivid people- deep-chested Barnabas; Caiaphas, the blue-horned high priest; chaste Thekla, the Greek maiden who followed Saul in boy's dress; easy Peter, shaggy John Baptist, gentle-fingered Luke. ... It is a book to read much more slowly than most. Between his rich phrases about white roses, tawny storms, bleeding...
...final game two nights later the same teams met in Ottawa and sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck, the game again being marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. Ottawa gave Boston a severe trouncing, 6-2; cinched the Stanley...
...original picture with a mesh of fine crossed lines. The varying tones of black, grey and white-there are about 26 tones in the standard half-tone print-are thus laid out in a pattern like a cross-stitch sampler. To each tone a letter is assigned-D for deep black, A for very light grey, etc. On the telegravure typewriters and linotype machines are corresponding characters-big D dots, tiny A dots, etc. A series of code phrases describes a picture line by line horizontally. For example, a line across the forehead in a portrait of George Washington might...
...pattern of the brocaded sleeves are entirely subservient. Observe also the splendid prehensibility of the hands, one resting elegantly on the smooth bronze of the cannon, the other, its strength in repose for the moment, holding the sword-scabbard lightly at his thigh. Only Titian could have painted the deep crimson velvet of the doublet, the soft fur of the collar, the liquid blue of the sapphire, the glint of the pendant pearl on his chest. Surely our picture is one of the great achievements...