Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rang the deep voice of Chief Boatswain's Mate Frederick J. Tobin, in charge of the ground crew: "Navy men, stand fast! We've got to get those people out of there!" With tremendous bravery, scores of gobs and civilians dashed headlong back to the conflagration. Though the heat was so intense that thermometers rose in the Navy Aerological School 500 yd. away, the rescuers charged into the control cabin and the passenger quarters. As one observer put it: "Those boys dived into the flames like dogs after rabbits!" Someone found Captain Lehmann, his clothes frizzled...
Killers of the Sea shows Caswell wrestling and subduing a 12-ft. bottle-nosed killer whale, a gigantic snapping sea turtle, an octopus, a sawfish and a tiger shark. There are many repetitions of the dramatic moment when, spying some deep-sea enemy, Caswell, "The Man of Steel, G-Man of the Deep," rips off his breeches and dives to the attack, knife in teeth. Audiences will guess that some energetic harpooning of the monsters has preceded Caswell's scrimmages: the fish stay on the surface to be photographed in a manner fish seldom consent to unless submergence...
...devilfish, his airline severed by a turtle's bite. Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife. Lowell Thomas explains that the captain's baldness is the result of a skull slash by a deep-sea monster, but makes no effort to analyze why the captain swims so awkwardly or why "a man of steel" should keep himself so plump. Killers of the Sea contains some really good shots of a white man and a Negro in a dory being towed and finally upset...
Died. Paul Chabas, 68, French portraitist who painted the famed September Morn; after long illness; in Paris. The model, who for two summers (1910-1911) stood ankle deep in chilly Lake Annecy while he painted slowly and meticulously, is now the wife of a French industrialist whose name he has kept a secret. Said Painter Chabas, who only last month began "involuntary retirement": "Although several fortunes have been made from my picture, nobody was thoughtful enough to send me even a box of cigars...
...external application of short, penetrating rays, but even when several grams of the element are available, the intensity of radiation is so small that the distance between the patient and the applicator can not, with economy, be made sufficiently great to deliver an adequate does to a deep-seated tumor...