Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long Dragon. Because the Yellow Dragon, broad and meandering, is too shallow for modern navigation, the commerce of the West courses into China chiefly up the Long Dragon, the Yangtze, which is deep enough for foreign steamers and war boats to sail 600 miles inland up to "The Chicago of China," Hankow. Last week the Yangtze rose at the rate of one foot per day until it was a foot higher than any dikes which existed two years ago, but still four feet below the tops of the 7,000 miles of new dikes built last year by hundreds...
...deep friendship toward France on our part," read Jesse Isidor Straus, "calls for deep understanding from France. We are ready to cooperate with France . . . with the expectation that you will work with us. In that spirit I present my credentials...
Here may we sit and view their toil That travail in the deep...
...lecture last month on The Name & Nature of Poetry in Cambridge's Senate-House, 74-year-old Scholar-Poet Housman said: "Farewell for ever. I will not say with Coleridge that I recentre my immortal mind in the deep sabbath of meek self-content; but I shall go back with relief and thankfulness to my proper...
People thronged wharves and cliffs near Santa Cruz, Calif, to watch a titanic battle of the deep. The waves foamed white as a great whale lunged, thrashed, leaped at its enemy. At last the whale, with a final spout of disgust, swam wearily away. As it went its unscathed opponent, a bobbing iron whistling buoy, moaned mournful triumph...