Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know. It baffled one A. H. Leonard who bought the buffalo herd last April with the idea of selling the animals to zoos. Not only were the creatures too wild to catch, but the five-mile stretch of water between island and mainland was too shallow for barges, too deep for motor trucks. If John E. Dooley swam and waded his small herd out to the island, that was a feat in itself. Rounding up the Dooley herd's 300 descendants and making them swim back would be impossible...
...Yale, in 1897, a brilliant youth of 20 was graduated. Of prosperous and socially impeccable Manhattan parentage, he did not forsake his youthful religious enthusiasm, but committed himself at once to the ministry. He was urbane, witty, talkative, diplomatic -even then having something of the Giorgione monk in his deep eyes and strange eyebrows. A gypsy, for less than a quarter, might easily have predicted for him an easy path to a Manhattan bishopric. But the gypsy could not have guessed how passionately Presbyterian he is -this modern liberal; and the radical honesty of the man would sooner lead...
...middle of the opening period the visitors started from deep down in their own territory to march down the field to a score. Once the Blue wall held momentarily, but the interrupted drive was resumed, with Hitch worming his way through holes in the Eli line to tear off large gains, and Holbrook starring with his dodging of tacklers in an open field. Hitch finally bolted over the last white line on a short line buck. The try-for-point failed...
...more serious are other faults in the book. Mr. Gorman loves sweeping statements, many of which seem to come near exaggerations. When he remarks in summing up the poet's work, "Not once have the deep springs of life been touched in living verse," there seems to be room for a saving, "Well, hardly ever...
...biographer says that he was not troubled by the "perilous and incomprehensible moods and passions that animate the poet's soul," that his grief was real but "does not touch those dark levels of tragedy that mark great love affairs," that "his nature, be it repeated again, is not deep but shallow." All this may be true, but how be sure? Admitting that all the moods and passions and dark levels of tragedy are not to be found in his writing, just as there is rather shallowness than depth in much of it, need one be so confident in pronouncing...