Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Jan. 10, reference is made to the "180-ft. bottom" of the Yangtze. I think you will find that it is not so deep as this anywhere within 100 or so miles of Nanking...
High above the deep waters of specialization the Freshman class stands perched, trying to puzzle out which way to leap. Starting with a soothing lecture this morning, two feverish weeks will be spent by those Yardlings who have not made up their minds in which field to concentrate. At Harvard, this decision is made earlier than at most colleges, and the success of the system which provides for a longer period of concentration depends upon the assumption that Freshmen will choose wisely...
Even the most sophisticated music-lover will find nothing banal about the joint concert of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society in Sanders Theater tomorrow evening. Mile, Nadia Boulanger has searched deep in the annals of composition to bring out a program of nine rare and beautiful pieces that should stir the soul of the hardest critic...
Just west of T. W. A.'s transcontinental stop at Winslow, Meteor Crater is about 4.000 ft. in diameter, 570 ft. deep from the lip of the rim to the bottom. The force of the impact raised the crater's lip 120 ft. above the surrounding plain. The amount of weathering and other evidence in the bowl indicate that it was formed not less than 700 years ago and not more than 5,000 years. The Indians of the region have a legend that one of their gods descended to Earth at the spot in a pillar...
Woven into its simple narrative were speculations about the ancient world that gave readers a more immediate sense of what it was like than most volumes of historical inquiry. Why, asked the novelist, did stories like this one of Joseph echo from generation to generation? He answered: "Very deep is the well of the past." Recorded history, he said, goes only a little way into that well. Deeper lie myths, folk tales, legends-"pious abbreviations" of real happenings. Time wore them down to bare narratives which later generations preserved partly through tradition, partly because men found similar patterns in their...