Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belisha Purge" was that despite two years of furious rearming by Great Britain, production of heavy machine guns, tanks and artillery is way behind, there is a deficit of 12,000 men in the Army's authorized strength, and the General Staff is as knee deep in red tape...
Cantor: Hark! Out of the deep . . . Dark . . . Inner vast . . . Gulf of carnal sleep . . . Full, fast . . . Thou up-wellest . . . One . . . As on a sea . . . Remote! . . . No Thee . . . And Thine . . . Ineffable, lavished . . . Zest . . . In ravished . . . Rest . . . Divine! (Soft shudder of great gong...
Because helium is light and therefore requires little effort to inhale, doctors have found it of value in treating asthma, croup, laryngitis and diphtheria when a constriction of the windpipe makes breathing difficult. It is also of value to deep-sea divers, as a 27-year-old engineer named Max Nohl demonstrated last week when he descended 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan. This was the deepest dive ever made in a diving suit.* An unofficial record of 361 feet was established in 1916 in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Previous official record...
...painful and sometimes fatal diver's affliction called "the bends" is caused by bubbles of nitrogen formed in the blood during a too quick ascent after a deep dive. Helium is so light that it tends to escape from the blood without forming bubbles of damaging size. Thus Nohl's suit considerably reduces the time necessary for a dive. But wishing to take no chances with his first 420-ft. try, he was brought up very slowly, in one hour and 45 minutes...
...marsh on Currituck Sound, N. C., began transferring his black muskrats south. More than half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped off to breed in North Carolina. Since then he has been busy dredging canals and ditches so his muskrats can swim deep in winter and grub for roots underneath the ice, using the mud to build up the banks so there will be plenty of slick slopes for them to slide down in their leisure hours. Next week Mr. Gibbs will fly down to North Carolina to see how his muskrats...