Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take deep joy and thank God that this article may "be considered as no more than an opening gun." FLOYD FAUST...
...room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors in its flank opened for ladles. Nearby was the mold-a circular tank 2 ft. deep, 17 ft. across, composed of insulated silicate brick, its floor studded with circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside the plant a crowd...
Last week, after a hot summer had thinned the deep snows, two employes of a mountain resort hotel set out on mule-back. High up on volcanic Cerro del Plomo (Hill of Lead) they found the wreckage sticking out of shallow drifts. Some of the nine scattered bodies were decapitated; all were well preserved in their shrouds of snow...
...Shanghai, Istanbul, London, Port Said and Bombay. In these plague spots live some 1,500,000 people. Two, three, four families pack into one flat. In summer the heat is stifling. In winter icicles from burst plumbing form on the hall ceilings. Refuse piles up in airshafts 15 feet deep. Basements are cluttered with rags and tinder. The better tenements have one toilet to a floor, but when one block was recently razed, the only sanitary facility discovered was a row of holes in a board in the backyard. Garbage is tossed out windows. In some, a match struck...
...world the candidate is a pestilence, and the snooping, prying novitiate is a bane to all civilized people. Even to those on the inside his behavior is inexplicable. In these days of emphasis on psycho-analysis it would not be a fruitless task for the psychological laboratories to delve deep into the inner makeup of the CRIMSON candidate...