Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deep Rays. Near Mohawk, Mich., the Seneca Copper Mining Co. has a mine shaft which slopes down at a 34° angle to a vertical depth of 1,600 feet. Volney C. Wilson, research assistant of the University of Chicago's famed Arthur Holly Compton, worked for three months in the shaft with a cosmic ray recorder of his own design, containing four ionization tubes. These were arranged in line so as to exclude cosmic rays shooting down the open shaft, to catch only rays boring vertically through the rock. From the surface to 1,600 feet Mr. Wilson...
...general public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty and drama. For a World's Fair is. no matter what the brochures and prospecti say about it, a big show; it creates an illusion, and it has to be emotional, dramatic, and possibly dyed with the deep but uncertain dyes of mysticism. The walls of most World's Fairs bear the imprint of the cloven hoof...
...fishes are concerned, it is probable that Rivero will work on those which belong to the Cuban fauna, and Schroeder will handle the remainder, chiefly the deep sea species...
...Atlantis is scheduled to leave Woods Hole December 28 and, after a week's hydrographic work around Bermuda, will proceed to the Bahamas, where two or three days collecting will be done in Providence Channel for deep sea fish...
...Originally the orthodox ski technique, Telemark turns (accomplished by sliding one ski far forward so that it guides the other into the turn) are practical only in deep snow, lost favor when the Christiania technique was developed...