Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close-written pages that prefaced his work Author Mann stated his thesis: the story of Joseph, like all very old stories, is a kind of shorthand condensation of legends that point back & back to an era before history, a human dawn unguessed by Science. "Very deep is the well of the past...
...point should not be exaggerated. If a man has a deep interest in his field, if he realizes the fact that it is his job to impart some of that interest to his audience, the one remaining requisite is a certain case in expressing himself. Facility in talking to others is, then, the quality which, more than any other, is the earmark of the successful lecturer. Without it, his knowledge, however voluminous, will avail him nothing...
...which he had lashed unmercifully as Chairman of the Board of Control. Because he knew how to use them, power and wealth gravitated to hard-fighting John Francis Neylan in the next 20 years. Emotional, intelligent, intuitive rather than scholarly, he is a spectacular courtroom performer. Towering, grey-maned, deep-voiced, he baits, bullies, works for an explosion of temper, then strikes home. He despises anything other than a frontal attack. But he is Irish enough to ogle juries, turn his biting wit on opponents...
...seconds, the epileptic's face goes dusky. He begins to jerk his arms, legs and body, roll his head, clamp his jaws, drool foam. Such an attack may last two or three minutes, after which the epileptic grows limp, breathes with a heavy rasp, drops into deep unconsciousness...
...Exchange at a premium of 11? on the dollar. Without warning, the Baldwin directors suddenly announced that interest payments, not on the bonds publicly held, but on those in the sinking fund, would be suspended. On that first admission of financial difficulties, Baldwin's 6% bonds took a deep nose-dive that carried them down 34 points in three days to 77? on the dollar...