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Word: deeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early morning, as a clammy fog began to blow off the harbor, grizzled old colliers and young shavers, eager to put pick to coal again, tramped to the mine mouth. There they stepped aboard the "cage," a rickety elevator which dropped them 700 feet to the mine-deep, starting point of the sloping shaft which runs out under the sea. To reach their diggings the miners boarded a "rake," a string of small narrow, flat cars fitted with wooden benches, which are let down the ten-degree slope by a wrist-thick steel cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Underground Runaway | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Gene Murphy, Dudley center fielder, saved the game in the last of the seventh by an outstanding catch of a long line drive in deep center field and then a perfect throw to first to complete a double-play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuters Beat Lowell To Tie for Championship In House Baseball League | 12/17/1938 | See Source »

...Paris' tiny* Galerie Henriette on the fashionable Avenue Matigon, a set of drawings and water colors by Paul Cézanne was exhibited to clinch an argument: that Cézanne, contrary to deep-rooted popular suspicion, knew how to draw. The exhibitor: Adrien Chappuis, owner of one of the best, least-seen collections of Cézanne drawings. Taken largely from notebooks, many of the great painter's slight, spontaneous pencilings were evidence enough that he had regarded drawing as note-taking, not as an art in itself. Exceptional, however, was an early, penciled male nude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Point, Lies, Insult | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...dreaming toward. Weighing 300 Ib.less than Advance, Mercer was a far more economical animal, because he provided cuts to fit the shrinking U. S. oven yet allowed no wastage, achieved maturity in materially less time, could be turned into cash before he ate up his future profits. His broad, deep body, straight back and thick coverings of high-priced meat were the answer to a breeder's prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pure Filet Mignon | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

SYDNEY MINES, Nova Scotia--With more than 250 aboard, a mine train ran wild today down a mile of track deep into the Princess Colliery diggings to splinter finally against a mine wall at 60 miles an hour, killing 20 of its occupants and injuring 45 more...

Author: By (the UNITED Press), | Title: Over the Wire | 12/7/1938 | See Source »

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