Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did the Senate lose its foremost sarcastigator, the Democrat whose tongue was like the lash of an Arkansas snake whip. The Caraway manner belied the Caraway mind. He used to slouch indolently in his Senate seat or pace the centre gangway and back aisles, hands dug deep in pockets, shoulders humped, bald head bent. Suddenly he would straighten up to cut in on a debate. Never a maker of long formal speeches he drawled out words that stung his adversaries, bitter words that left scars. Not soon will Truman Newberry or Albert Bacon Fall or Harry Micajah Daugherty...
...years ago Professor Pickering guessed that on some parts of the moon crops grew twice a day. He also suggested that the moon was flung into space from the present site of the Pacific Ocean; that if that had not happened, the earth would now be peopled exclusively by deep sea fish. If anyone has $10,000,000 to spare, Professor Pickering offers to show him how to signal Mars...
Meanwhile, almost on its second birthday, the U. S. Depression showed signs of waning. Nobody said Depression was over, but in high places events were taken to show that it had been checked. Business took a deep breath, felt a little better...
...Staunton, Va., Arthur Fournier fell asleep on a bus, dreamed he was asleep on the deep. Still asleep, he leaped to his feet, cried: "She's sinking! Jump for your lives!" No fool to remain aboard a sinking ship, Arthur Fournier jumped through the window, was killed...
...through the field of science there exist such opposed arguments, yet a deep faith in the infallibility of scientific investigation clings to minds that have long since rejected faith in the infallibility of the Church. Critical perception is dulled by the glamour of famous names; so that the educated world, from being priest-ridden, has become expert-ridden. The coming of Dr. de Sitter is an exemplary occasion for the expression of scientific agnosticism...