Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brass Ankle. It takes a Southerner to convey adequately the potential horror and tragedy that lurk in the sociological backwaters of the Deep South. The cruelty of middle-class white "crackers" has been deftly transferred to book form by William Faulkner (Sanctuary), a reconstructed Southerner (TIME, Feb. 16). Further aspects of it are now to be seen in this grim play by DuBose Heyward of Charleston, S. C., author of the book whence came all-Negro Porgy three years...
...Seismologist-in-charge of the Harvard Seismograph Station, said "The earthquakes which occur in New England and vicinity are surficial, seldom extending to a depth of more than 200 feet, whereas the earthquakes which are typical of Central America, the Western coast of the United States, and Japan, are deep-seated, continuing from the surface to a depth of 25 miles...
Precision is the bureau's prime purpose. Deep within an unshakable vault, where temperature and air pressure is constant, lies the master measuring stick of the U. S., a platinum bar one metre long. Bureau men know that it is one metre long because they measured with an eternal, invariable standard, the red light waves of cadmium...
...Europe than of France, Remain Rolland was one of the few top-flight intellectuals who not only tried to prevent the late Great War but refused to succumb to it. The result: exile in Switzerland, where he still lives (aetat 65). When he digs into a subject he digs deep. His ten-volume Jean-Christophe won him the Nobel Prize (1915). The Soul Enchanted, a study in feminism, ran to three volumes. Since then he has been working the Beethoven vein, has published one (U. S.-translated) book on Beethoven the Creator (TIME, Sept. 16, 1929). Rolland's scholarship...
...Tall, deep-voiced, grey-wooled Dr. Moton was Dr. Washington's successor at Tuskegee, and like him a graduate of Hampton Institute at Hampton, Va. Ever since he was called to Tuskegee at Dr. Washington's death in 1915 he has de voted himself dynamically to its advancement. Though many Negro leaders be lieve that the salvation of their race is not to be found by such purely industrial training as Tuskegee offers, all recognize Dr. Moton as one of their great leaders, a potent contact-man between the Negro and the White. Last week Dr. Meredith Ashby Jones, white...