Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MUCH tragedy and pathos are embodied in the 135 pages of this little work, and yet presented in so restrained a manner that the emotion aroused by them is equally quiet: a feeling of pity, not active and vigorous, but deep. There is little story, rather a structure of atmosphere and feeling. Two German soldiers, both shot in the throat so that they must breathe through silver tubes, and so whistle with every breath, occupy a room in a rear-line hospital. Another, younger man joins them; some time after this trio has formed its little community, an English prisoner...
...glasses were brought to bear upon it, and instead of a violent, submarine volcanic action I saw two mammoth denizens of the deep-two whales-who were having a glorious time, splashing and frisking, tail-thwacking and nose-bumping, diving and hurdling, and their actions for a considerable radius had churned the calm, listless sea into a veritable caldron of boiling, foaming, angry water...
When a man goes over the side of his disabled airplane, from deep in his consciousness comes the reflex which makes him pull the rip cord, located over his heart, and open up his life saver. Psychologically it is almost impossible to forget to pull. Three hundred feet of altitude is the safe minimum in which the chute can be used, although jumps of less height are on record. The highest jump on record is one of better than 24,000 ft. At that height, the jumper had to have oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from...
...exist. The immense power which women have over what might be called the national pulse, bolstered by their influence in the education of the next generation, and culminated in some countries by the new power to vote, forces the defenseless male between a Devil of the emotions and a deep sea of domesticity. The only trouble with the present situation is that in this case the women are fighting among themselves, occasions which are usually bitter but unproductive...
Down by the river a group of steadily growing brick buildings bear testimony to the near christening of the Harkness House Plan. Visitors from New Haven view them with deep interest, and mixed emotions. Harvard is hailed as a scoffer at tradition, is admired through many gallons of printer's ink for her adventurous spirit. Yale has regretted and amended her decision...