Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell is deep in many things. He is enthusiastically deep in campanology (bell lore). He finds few books more fascinating than De Tintinnabulis by 16th Century Bell-Master Hieronymus Magius. All last week Dr. Lowell's stout old heart was palpitant with the excitement of getting those Russian bells hung just right. There was trouble...
...Loneliness-half again as large as France-with the remnant of a race whose mighty civilization long ago was overthrown, buried by the shifting sand. Scientific speculation has long visualized there a central, sunken oasis capable of sustaining life. Midway of his 58-day trek, Explorer Thomas crossed deep caravan tracks. He learned from his Bedouin followers that it was the road to Urbar, buried city of tribal legend. But no other trace of civilized man or oasis did he find. He heard the great dunes made vocal by the winds-the "singing sands" of tribal tradition, which says they...
...rewrite man took pencil and copy-paper into a telephone booth. The subdued hubbub that had filled the room all night died away to silence. Everyone crowded toward the city desk: writers, artists, "legmen" (seldom seen in the office), compositors and pressmen clustered ten deep about the chair of Benjamin Franklin, night city editor. They stood in silence, waiting and wondering with heavy hearts-jobs or no jobs? World or no World...
...more months of grace. Immediately afterwards Royal Mail debenture holders voted to let this company borrow another $1,250,000 to provide working capital during their company's reconstitution. Walter Runciman has until next June to save Lord Kylsant's great Armada from foundering forever in the deep sea of liquidation...
...much of Professor Palmer's facts may be, the terse style prevents it from becoming tedious, but the true flow of ripe wisdom is not reached until the second half of the book. Here the passages are so inchoate with thought that the sentences are almost without exception deep, if not winged, aphorisms. Professor Palmer's work should go on the shelves side by side with the settled wisdom of other great personalities in American letters...