Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief, we now have very conclusive evidence that the last continental ice-sheet (the Wisconsin) which originated on the Labrador Peninsula and pushed southward, did not cross the outer Gulf of St. Lawrence, the glacial ice having there, as elsewhere, a natural dislike for deep salt water. Nevertheless, in many parts of Newfoundland, Wisconsin-time saw small local sheets of ice on some mountain-slopes and on some of the open plains; and these local Wisconsin sheets did as effective work in Newfoundland as in New England...
...Square. A visitor walking into the Attorney General's corner office on the sixth floor of the Department of Justice Building would see seated behind a large flat-top desk a lithe, slender man with a well-shaped forehead, soft brownish hair, touched with grey at the sides, deep brown eyes of an almost feminine softness. Behind him, wide windows open on McPherson Square. A serene calm fills the office. A stranger would be surprised to learn that this man before him is 55, for he does not look over 40. There is a youthful slightness about...
...Robert Russa Moton, grey-wooled Negro principal of Tuskegee Institute, was sitting on the stage close to General Smuts. Gravely he got to his feet as the speaker finished and raised his deep voice...
When Columbus set sail to discover a new passage to India, one of the islands he touched upon was Haiti, then named Hispaniola. Little did he or the Spanish colonists who came after him realize what deep and ticklish problems this little island would present...
Professor Fay is an authority on European history, especially that part which deals with the late war, and has made a deep study of the current political events concerned with the aftermath of the war. He has taught at Smith College, Dartmouth, Amherst, and Harvard, and has written and edited many works on the history of-Europe...