Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tolerance, respect, admiration, liking, into the hearty friendship--I might say the love--which makes it a delight to work with you now, whether in opposition or alliance, Probably we shall always approach subjects from opposite sides. You began in chemistry, I in theology. But nothing can touch my deep affection for you or my gratitude to the man who more than any other shows me perpetually how to rely on the Eternal for personal strength...
...their open pits were becoming death traps as "mud rushes" (slides) caved in upon them from the perimeter. Subsoil mining followed as a matter of course, but subsoil mining is expensive. It was in forming the great mining syndicates which bought out the open pit "little fellows" and sunk deep mines that such men as Cecil Rhodes amassed great fortunes- and Barney Barnato was not far behind Rhodes in diamond wealth...
Despatches from Nevada related the discovery, in mountainy canyons near Winnemucca, of extensive deposits of opals, those iridescent gems, glowing blue, green, yellow, pink and deep red, for which the world has previously depended chiefly upon mines in Hungary, Mexico, Honduras, Australia. Geologists reported that the stones had been formed after a petrified forest was prehistorically inundated by volcanic ash and lava. Made bold by successful recent raids on Nevada gold mines, bandits broke into a store of the gems laid away by prospectors, but soon found their precious loot turned to worthless dross in their hands. Softer than most...
...December. His church pays tribute to him tomorrow. Next week the CRIMSON will issue its memorial edition, but this can in no way be considered as an expression of the undergraduate both as a whole. It is the CRIMSON's modest but sincere token of its deep respect and affection for the late President...
...found the little chapel in the north transept burled deep among the shadows and the silence. It was light enough to read the bronze tablet: "This chapel was restored in 1907 in memory, of John Harvard by the sons and friends of Harvard University." and, opposite, another tablet, saying that the window was given by Joseph Choate, Harvard, 1862: American Ambassador in London...