Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of April 3, one of your correspondents tells a story about a lovely long word invented by a scientist to represent "the complete sound caused by the sudden entry from above of a large stone into a deep pool." As a matter of fact the word pompholygopaplilasma (for that is the correct transliteration) was invented by the comic poet Aristophanes, and may be found at 1. 249 of his play The Frogs. It is made up of pompholyx which means a bubble, and paphlisma which means a frothing or foaming up. Hence the Aristophanic compound represents the sound...
...takes more experience than can be gained as a member of a good-will tour meeting city fathers and making speeches at banquets to get beyond the superficial aspects of any environment. A book which bites deep into the core of a country's spirit must be written by a man with insight and sympathy, and, above all, long familiarity with his subject. W. H. Hudson lived in Patagonia as a child and knew the Pampas through and through, even if Guedalla does accuse him of making it a vast bird sanctuary. Lafcadio Hearn knew Japan in the same...
...away now," watch his eyes as he wildly strums the lyre as Rome burns and you will be convinced that he is one of the best actors that have gone to Hollywood without being robbed of their dramatic talent. He is much better than in "Devil and the Deep," where he played a more active role...
Most interested spectator at President Roosevelt's conference with the Senators was a lean-faced, youngish man of 44 with a mop of dark brown hair just turning grey and deep thoughtful eyes-an economic idealist. Taciturn, he sat and listened most of the time. He was Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and the official upon whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power...
...four big affiliated holding companies, American Power & Light, National Power & Light, Electric Power & Light, American Gas & Electric, must deal with a louder demand for rate reductions than ever reached Chairman Mitchell's ears. Its one subsidiary, American & Foreign Power (which owns no U. S. properties), has long been deep in Depression...