Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before had been stranded under water for an hour with a fouled blowout valve. Newest and one of the finest of the Navy's submarines (she was commissioned in March, cost $5,000,000 to build), the Squalus was named for the dogfish, which dives fast and swims deep...
...probability of death, while around them divers worked desperately in the darkness. Finally the jammed cable was cut and the bell hauled up foot by foot. At 12:38 a.m. of the second day the U. S. Navy had rescued its living. Below, in the hull of the deep-diving Squalus, 26 corpses slept...
Yawns. The dictators had expected the democracies to get scared over this juncture of totalitarian arms. Instead there were only deep yawns. The British thought an Italian-German alliance, after all that has happened in the last three years, was a pretty Did story. The French, far from being frightened, snickered that Germany had acquired a new protectorate, Italy...
...Davis in Dark Victory; in Rome, where they are laughing at a boy-meets-girl comedy called Two Dozen Red Roses and singing a tuneful song called It Was Folly; in Russia, where football squads are drilling for the summer season; in London, where the most popular song is Deep Purple. Over the crisis-worn continent last week the people were moving under cloudless skies; the wheat was up, the fishing was good, and a wave of celebrations, fairs, festivals, holidays, anniversaries, colored the old towns from Liége in Belgium to Brashov in Rumania...
Last Sunday St. George's honored its most distinguished chorister with a special service of Negro spirituals. Headliner on the program was Harry Burleigh himself. Most of the spirituals were his own arrangements, including such famed items as Deep River, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Go Down, Moses (in all, he has written some 150). St. George's was jammed. Outside, in tree-shaded Stuyvesant Square, big crowds listened in the warm spring sunshine as the voice of Harry Burleigh and St. George's choir rolled deeply from loudspeakers...