Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile. He walked, bareheaded, ahead of the members of his old A. F. of L. Moulders' Union, ahead of Harry Bridges, ahead of everybody. The siren of the Ferry Building, block away from the scene of the 1916 bombing, screeched as it had that day. Crowds five deep lined the streets, once almost pushed the guest of honor into the band. Parents held up their children to get a look at Tom Mooney...
Pacific Liner (RKO Radio). Amorous rivalry between a ship's doctor and a chief engineer, heightened by an outbreak of cholera on the high seas, results in a few deep-breathing exercises for Chester Morris and Victor McLaglen...
...logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through a hatch in the nose 4,000-lb. tractors or standard army dump trucks may be driven right aboard. Depending on the fuel requirements, the Babb Special's payload capacity is reckoned at from 8,000 to 10,000 Ibs., more than a Douglas DC-3 passenger transport...
...cottage near Stowe, where he is now writing his ninth book, on falconry. Best passages in The Sword in the Stone are the descriptions of sporting events: a boar hunt in which the master huntsman's dog is cruelly killed, the pursuit of an escaped falcon which is deep in the molt and not in yarak (proper condition for flying...
During the cold winter of 1717, snow fell steadily for five days in New England, lay five or six feet deep in Boston for a long time. In March 1741, people sleighed from Stratford, Conn. to Long Island across the solidly frozen Sound. In 1779-80, according to Thomas Jefferson, "the Chesapeake Bay was frozen solid from its head to the mouth of the Potomac. At Annapolis the ice was five to seven inches in thickness, quite across...