Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nerves strung fiddle-tight, emotions running skin-deep, the U. S. watched its 76th Congress open a Great Debate last week. A thousand curious citizens pulled wires to wangle passes to cram into the Senate's gallery of 450 seats. Eighty-three Senators out of 96-a portentous proportion-answered the roll call...
Enough Land. Over the Middle West, through the Deep South and into Texas, through the corn belt, the wheat belt, the cotton belt, from the potato farms of Maine and Idaho to the orange groves of Florida and California, the 25 kinds of soils in the U. S. gave up their annual products. There were 6,288,648 farms in the country in 1929, with a total acreage of 986,771,016; there were 6,812,350 in 1939, covering 1,054,515,111 of the 1,900,000,000 acres in the U. S. The week the war began...
...sugar cane; 1,115,000 bushels of corn; 4,828,200 lbs. of turpentine; 18,590 lbs. of beeswax; 36,000 hogs. The oil industry, most extraordinary and dramatic of them all, with the pumps slowly chugging in the exhausted fields of Pennsylvania, with the wells sinking two miles deep in California and Louisiana, with rigs floating in barges penetrating the mud of the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, with its 96,612 miles of pipe lines running from Oklahoma to New Jersey and crisscrossing the continent like veins under its skin, with the fields of East or West...
...Grant Study in Social Adjustments, Harvard's unique research project for "analyzing the forces that produce normal young man," will this year delve deep into the lives of 100 undergraduates, mostly Sophomores, Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, announced yesterday...
Along the stonewalls and the dusk The cow-paths come up very steep, The cowbells mingle with the bells That ring on reefs out on the deep...