Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rural scuffling and vituperative speechmaking, bedeviled the last days of President Hoover. His strike of last spring in Iowa was thrown out of stride in the general enthusiasm over the New Deal. But last week's agrarian trouble had the Administration worried. Sensing a discontent which smoldered deep, President Roosevelt looked about for means of starting a vigorous backfire...
...around again, a second ship, the British freighter Silver Palm, came plowing down on her out of the fog on the port side. The Chicago reversed engines, blared a long shrill collision call. The Silver Palm tried to stop. With a metallic crash her prow rammed 18 feet deep into the side of the Chicago just forward of the first gun turret. Two officers and a pay clerk were crushed to death. The Navy Department immediately ordered an investigation but could not find or identify the missing brown ship which had caused the accident...
...they and God knew. Mr. Acheson had cable reports every morning telling the latest news of foreign exchange markets. Presumably they telephoned the President at the White House to get approval of their price-fixings, but on what principle they fixed their premium above the world price remained a deep secret...
...What ails the colleges seems to most a deep and occult mystery, but it is patent to all that the college student is alike an affliction to himself and to the world. Whether he be the gin-drinking, neurotically erotic, three-gallons-of-gas-and-a-dark-lane sort, or the sweet grind sedulously poring his neuter way through dusty tomes, or one of the infinite gradations between, he is a sorry confection to send out into the great world to take his place in the ruling class. He has no ideals worthy of the name, and of most subjects...
...late as 1931, Mr. Strachey was a follower of Sir Oswald Mosley, the avowed leader of Fascism in England, and his knowledge of British social conditions is deep and intimate. From it he argues that desperate capitalism will use the Fascist instrument in Great Britain, and he can see no reason to suppose that it will not be similarly applied in the United States. Nor, if his analysis of the instrument be correct, is there any reason to suppose so. What has made capitalism, in the words of G.K. Chesterton "not only a discredited ethic but a bankrupt business...