Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armed with picks, dynamite, ropes and spidery wire ladders, the French speleologists pushed deep into both these geological intestinal tracts. During the German occupation they set out each time with stealth, lest their odd-looking apparatus interest the Gestapo. But whenever they reached the secret innards of the mountain, they knew they were safe from human interference. Little by little they explored the underground labyrinth. At last they discovered that if they enlarged a narrow passage between two tunnels, they could break the Italian depth record. Last week they...
...minute past noon, after 100 miles, the crowd stood up as Holland's blue racer got into a traffic jam streaking into the southwest turn. Young Bill cut sharply to the inside and off the track, dug a deep track in the grass and shot back on to the brick. Behind him a bright orange racer spun out of control, turned two circles and crashed into the outside retaining wall. Oil from its wounded motor oozed downward across the speedway but there was no pace slackening; other cars splashed through the puddle. Within a few minutes, the loudspeakers announced...
...steel shortage has cut deep into the production of big corporations. For many a small manufacturer it has been a worse misfortune; some have been forced to shut up shop completely. To head off this blight to business, the Senate's Small Business committee is trying to find out why small buyers can get no steel. What it found out in hearings last week was that little businessmen can buy steel-if they are willing to pay fabulous prices...
...hospitals, in theaters, in churches, in schools, in orphanages. Some of the film's most interesting revelations are not breathless news, but are very convincing. Among the strong impressions left by this study of scores of faces: 1) Russians are bitterly poor but their fortitude evidently goes as deep as their poverty; 2) religion, among religious Russians, is still a strong and deep-rooted influence; 3) children are treated with kindness and gayety, and the treatment blooms in their faces; 4) the Soviet bureaucracy, whatever its sins and shortcomings, appears to have a strong sense of responsibility toward...
...people of the novel are the inhabitants of a Maine coastal village and a few summer visitors who stayed. The youngsters whose brief love affair is doomed by deep differences in background and small-town backbiting are unusual only because Miss Athas reveals their emotions so delicately...