Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French President Albert Lebrun the Grand Cross of Austrian Merit and be pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Since devout Catholic Schuschnigg is a passionate Monarchist he explained to the bored, irreligious French over & over just how wonderful it would be to proclaim deep-dimpled, wavy-haired Habsburg Archduke Otto as His Apostolic Majesty in Vienna...
...short while, later made a precarious living by giving Shakespearean readings to Negro audiences in Canada. The next 40 years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly he made his headquarters around Haines Institute at Augusta, Ga. At commencement time he would put on plays. In return, Headmistress Lucy Laney literally kept him from starving during...
...which has passed a vertical depth of 5,000 ft. Such lean ore had never before been mined so far down. In open-pit mining, which means simply shoveling away a hill of exposed ore (as at Bingham, Utah), lodes down to 8/10 of 1% can be handled profitably. Deep-vein mining entails the cost of tunneling, drilling, blasting, hoisting, ventilating. Mining engineers consider Mr. MacNaughton's achievement remarkable because his deep ore was only slightly higher than the lowest grade of surface ore mined anywhere in the U. S. Mr. MacNaughton had no great scientific tricks...
...accord with the disparity between the present and the past, making clear the while why the passage is significant--in addition to this he so fires his students with enthusiasm that some feel driven to research of their own, while the majority return to the text with a deep and lasting understanding of its true meaning. Because Professor Kittredge accomplished these two results virtually to perfection, he is responsible for our conception of Shakespeare and has himself taught every recognized Shakespearian authority in modern America...
Maurois admits that Dickens "fled from himself. He fled from the memory of a thwarted emotional life, the memory of a deep love slain in the dawn of youth, the memory of a hateful childhood." But Dickens the Victorian man, he implies, should not cast a shadow over Dickens the victorious writer: he is "above all, a great poet...