Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Large, deep-voiced Edwin Sheddan Cunningham was born in Sevier County, Tenn. 64 years ago Once a mail clerk, he worked in a publishing house for a while, entered the Consular Service in 1898. He has remained in the Far East ever since, is now dean of foreign consuls in Shanghai, known even before the crisis as "the most difficult post in the consular service...
Forty-five minutes later Chief Carpenter William Huerter, standing waist deep in the turbulent sewer a block below Philip Street, thought he heard faint cries. Then he saw a head bobbing toward him through the darkness. Gripping the bottom of the ladder with one hand, with the other he grabbed a man's limp body just before the filthy current swept into a 75-ft. down-drain. A rope pulled the half-conscious Debo up through the Grand Street manhole, 800 ft. from his starting point. Hospitalized, John Debo told his story...
...deep crisis in Capitalist lands is the strongest proof that the downfall of the Capitalist world is approaching! The successes of Socialism in the Soviet Union are the best proof of the advantages of the Socialist system. ... All of which strengthens the Soviet Union as a center of attraction for workers of all countries and the oppressed throughout the world. The revolutionary significance of the Soviet Union is increasing...
...walls cracked. Guatemalans, remembering the destruction of their capital in 1918, fell on their knees and prayed. The shocks continued, grew more violent. The two volcanoes reared their heads. Fire, ashes, lava spouted from their mouths, peasants shivered at the sound of their abdominal rumblings. Ashes fell a foot deep on nearby villages, destroyed coffee crops for miles around. Guatemala City was under a cloud that spread from Mexico to Nicaragua. After two days the shocks stopped. The city still stood. The buzzards went back to their vigil...
...gwok wantung ngan-hong). A Chinese munitions launch blew up in the middle of the river, killed 35 coolies, just as a passenger airplane was passing overhead. Thousands of citizens thought the Japanese invasion had begun. There are no cellars to hide in in Shanghai (any hole three feet deep strikes water), so they rushed for the International Settlement. The engineer of the Shanghai-Hangchow express heard the explosion of the munitions launch some miles outside the city. In terror he ran the train on a siding, uncoupled the locomotive himself and ran back to Shanghai leaving his passengers stranded...