Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported Reporter Morley: "The President is a good man. He pronounces economics correctly, with a long e. Beware of statesmen who call it eckonomics. . . .* He does not care for wildcat literature. He sank his shafts deep into the solid ore of Balzac, Brontė, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, George Eliot, Bret Harte, Hawthorne, Howells, Kipling, Meredith, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, Mark Twain. . . . There is nothing austerely highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem...
...William Beebe's dives toward the bottom of the sea off Bermuda. Dr. Beebe, field agent for the New York Zoological Society, uses a bathysphere. 4¾ ft. quartz-windowed steel ball with walls 1½ in. thick. Its purpose is to withstand the pressure of deep sea water, whereas Professor Piccard's 7-ft. aluminum gondola was constructed to prevent its explosion in rarefied...
...record for Bonus cashing. The B. E. F. episode only served to intensify their demand. Their attitude was emotional, not rational. Inside the Portland auditorium many of their representatives put aside courtesy and good manners, descended to rowdy catcalls and boos in overriding the opposition. Their behavior reflected a deep, unruly ferment in the Legion itself...
...Chinese family, now in its 23rd printing, will look, forward to Sons, which tells them more about the fortunes of the Wang family. As lengthy (467 pages) as her first best seller, Sons is just as pleasantly written, should give the reader the same pleasant feeling of delving deep into Chinese consciousness...
...Mayor Bulganin on construction of their new subway. An electrical engineer, Mayor Bulganin spared no technical details, told at dry length what kind of motors will speed what kind of cars over what kind of rails with what consumption of kilowatts. "We are using the London type of deep-sunk tubes," he stated. "They will radiate like spokes of a wheel from our Central Subway Station which is now partly finished. The first train should traverse the first spoke late...