Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed 8-ft. piles, distributing the weight evenly...
...decks are 486 empty steel cylinders to carry back to Germany the first installment of U. S. gas. At 2,500 Ib. per sq. in. pressure, 5,600 cu. ft. of helium can be compressed into each cylinder. In the U. S. helium for medical treatments (asthma, croup), deep-water diving, laboratory experiments, is shipped 200,000 cu. ft. at a time in cylinders 40 ft. long, 4 ft. in diameter which travel four to a flatcar...
Spectacular in contrast to the drawing-room bargaining of union leaders here is the deep-scated labor war now waging on the Columbia campus...
...wish to call things by their true names. In Germany, in fact, there is religious persecution. . . . Rarely has there been persecution so grave, so terrible, so painful, so sad in its deep effects. . . . People say the Catholic religion is no longer the Catholic religion, but is politics, and this pretext is taken to justify a persecution. . . . This is the same accusation made against Jesus Christ when he was dragged before Pontius Pilate. . . . We can reply as Jesus Christ did . . . Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo [My kingdom is not of this world]. We are not in politics. We live...
...highway 30 N enters the Snake River Valley, a wild region of fantastic rock formations, ghost towns, ice caverns, dinosaur fields, waterfalls, hot springs, reclamation projects, historic legends, lava beds. In some places, because of the underground rivers, "a person can put his ear to the ground and hear deep and troubled rumblings as if a mighty ocean rolled far under." Thirty-eight miles from Pocatello a three-mile side road leads to Emigrant Rock, where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another side road branches off to the Silent City...