Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first book, this of Mr. Blake's is a definite achievement. He has recreated the country of Billy the Kid. He has an attachment for the Southwest that is deep in his blood, but it is to be hoped he will not run the danger of so restricting himself to the district as to imperil his writings about other sections, and that when and if he turns to fiction he will not have become typed. For American literature is in need of writers as unassuming and yet as penetrating as is Mr. Blake in "Riding the Musiang Trail...
...with a program of picketing not only the Ledger building and newsstands but also advertisers (including potent Bamberger's). Ledger circulation, 44,000 before the strike, slumped to about 30,000. By the advertising manager's own statement, the Ledger lost 15 of its fattest accounts, suffered deep cuts in many another. Supported by money donations from Guild chapters throughout the land, the strikers maintained a running fire from picket lines, loudspeaker trucks, radio stations and a furious sheetlet called The Reporter, until the Ledger marched into court and obtained an injunction against the strikers. So sweeping...
Author Luhan is a nature-lover: "It is delicious to participate with the cat in the deep within the penetrating domestic quietude of the somnolent interior, yet it is not so precious and uplifting as the tender, wakeful participation with the birds." Her description of Taos scenery and climate, especially from her window, are lingeringly loving. But life in a New Mexican ranch house, however comfortably fixed up, is fraught with more than contemplation. Chatelaine Luhan finds it strenuous: "For every single time I have to attend to anything, whether it's a horse, or a telegram from goodness...
Last week Harvey Harlow Nininger, Colorado meteorite expert, revealed discovery of a 700-lb. aerolite by a farmer near Hugoton, Kans. Buried a yard deep in the ground, it was the most massive aerolite ever turned up in that State.* Mr. Nininger bought the ponderous stone on the spot, and the finder hoisted it into his trailer, started hauling it to Denver where Mr. Nininger is curator of meteorites at the Colorado Museum of Natural History...
...greatest personality I have ever known." On an exploring trip into Rhodesia with Rhodes and Dr. Jameson, Hammond investigated some ruins at Zimbabwe, came to the conclusion that he had found King Solomon's mines. In the Rand, world's No. i gold field, Hammond introduced deep-level mining, started one (the Robinson Deep) that is still being profitably worked at 8,500 ft.-the greatest depth on record...