Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noctambulating tourists beheld, the Niagara River did early one morning last week something that it has not done since 1850-chewed off another giant chunk of the ledge which makes Niagara Falls. The new notch in the falls' brink is about 150 ft. wide, 250 ft. deep. Geologists say that the 40,000-year-old falls will eventually be slanted back into a long series of rapids beginning near Tonawanda. N. Y. But New York's greatest thrill for honeymooners is safe for centuries to come. On the U. S. side the erosion process averages only one inch...
...another tutoring school has tentatively reared its head in the purlieus of Cambridge Town. Its site, opposite Arthur's and the Lampoon, has advantages. When the Tunisian has become too grant for those who have shunned drinking deep they may find quick relief in gastronomic delights, or, by going up stairs, in stilled laughter. The inauguration of this institution is just another phase of the college hegira from the sanctuary of the Yard to the more rarified atmosphere of the riverbank...
Manhattan Island's flinty length is skewered by two sets of tubes, its flat back mounted by three great overhead structures. The tubes all duck under the East River, bore deep into Brooklyn. One is run by Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. The other, a two-pronged affair stretching to The Bronx, is controlled by Interborough Rapid Transit Co. which also operates the elevated lines. New York City owns the tunnels and tracks, rents them under long-term leases to the operating companies...
...pine tree on the hills of Maryland-through many summers' heats and winters' snows, Felled, carted, quartered, sawn, a metamorphosis within a week. And then a century buried deep within the White House walls, Unseen, unsung, but one of myriads holding firm together the storied structure. Until, a new age came and replaced steel for wood, then months upon the dump, The dump cart actually arrived jor one last ride- And then a rescue...
...lying on the earth and am one with the elemental things, the primal things. It is as though my body were filled with life. My body sings and I listen and I try to translate that music into movement." Wigman audiences received her with shouts of ecstasy, apparently found deep, abstract meaning in her lunging, prancing, posturing and whirling, did not mind her looking middle-aged and having dowdy costumes. The uninitiated could appreciate her strength and vitality, her perfect muscular control...