Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Dec. 9, p. 61, under Science, you say "The deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 feet deep...
...weight At athletics she does not lose her breath as quickly as do other girls. She can hold a singing note amazingly long. Physiologically her body gets all the air it needs because, breathing more slowly than normal, she breathes more deeply. The average lung after a very deep inhalation contains five quarts of air. A person can never completely void his lungs of air. Even in death about one quart remains. In ordinary quiet breathing the average lung always contains a residue of two and a half quarts of air. Quiet inhalation adds a pint. Ordinary people use only...
...poetasters, a convenience to her cavaliers, a laboratory for her scientists. The late longtime (since 1889) Trustee Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Herald Tribune, loved well these natural wonders. Said he: "Since my first knowledge of Cornell University, I have regarded the beautiful deep ravines or gorges . . .'as among the choicest physical assets of the university. . . . Every one who matriculates . . . will carry through after days their memory and spiritual influence." During his lifetime he gave some $200,000 to develop Cornell's campus. This autumn, just before his death, the trustees renamed...
Reason for the change: in its new location the Ambrose's 5,000-candlepower light will be a more accurate beacon for ships entering narrow Ambrose Channel from the deep Atlantic 20 miles east of Staten Island...
...volume. The ordinary reader, therefore, begins to see the glimmer of the movements of mentality traced by Professor White-head from the seventeenth century to the present time, even though be falls to follow much of the reasoning that lies beneath unfamiliar terminology. And although it requires a deep study, despite the fact that the work is for beginners, to to grasp the full meaning, nevertheless the treatment of scientific ideas in scientific terms is more to be commended than a simple outline couched in ordinary language which would inevitably sacrifice the deepness of the reason...