Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this way. If a thousand families are thrown together, they must plan their farms, gardens, houses, stores, shops, factories. But they must also do their city planning, i. e.,--streets, parks, sites for public buildings, public reservations, routes for public utilities, zoning districts, pierhead and bulkhead lines and deep channels. These are a separate field from planning private property. They are the work of the community for the community, and if we have them at all, they must exist under sanction of law. They are the difference between a civilized and an uncivilized community. A municipality, state or nation without...
...down as far as Kentucky and Missouri and which drained huge volumes of water from the seas. What caused the rest of the marine subsidence remains a mystery. In any case, it appears that the Pleistocene rivers coursed through land that is now submerged and many of them carved deep gorges. That the Hudson carved one of the biggest and deepest was known as long ago as 1882, when soundings were made by the old line-&-sinker method, but an accurate survey had to wait for the development of continuous echo-sounders...
...miles southeast of Sandy Hook. The valley was only a few fathoms deeper than its banks for the first 85 miles. At that point the present sounding is 600 ft. Then the river began to cut deeper. Few miles farther on the gorge is 2,400 ft. deep, eight miles wide, and its bottom is 3.000 ft. below present sea level. Greatest depth of the gorge from brink to bottom is 3.600 ft., which beats Colorado's Royal Gorge by 1,000 ft. It becomes shallower near the mouth which is 7,500 ft. under the ocean surface. North...
...always done well, was earning dividends for the whole company. But its 500,000,000-per-year sales were about the top for a 2O? brand. In Paul Jones there was little money at 10?. Nevertheless, Paul Jones and other 10? brands had scared the Big Four into deep price-cutting on Camels, Chesterfields, Lucky Strikes and Old Golds, with the result that the profit margin for dealers was down to almost nothing...
...finally nominate. It would matter a great deal if Senator Borah, by some freak turn of Fortune's wheel, were nominated. Should he, with his inflationary visions and incept record in foreign affairs, be nominated, the voter would face the unpleasant prospect of choosing between the devil and the deep blue...