Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
...Punch, the cartoons were merely illustrations of elaborate written jokes. Today's Punch-like its U.S. contemporary, the New Yorker-strives for the drawing that is comic in itself, trims its captions to a single punch line. Punch frequently gets deep into politics and economics, with no intent to be funny. It also carries serious reviews of the movies, theater and books-but with a difference. Says Editor Knox: "The New Yorker is so scornful of everything. Nothing is quite good enough in their eyes. We try not to be too bitter or unkind...
...everyone knows, said Blackett, the earth has a magnetic field, but no one has figured out why. The magnetism does not come from iron deep underground, because the earth's core is far too hot to be "ferro-magnetic." As early as 1891, physicists guessed that the magnetism might be due to some inherent property of revolving bodies. They could not prove...
...economy, July 15 will mean a jolt. Enough pounds can be converted into dollars after that date to hasten the currency crisis now dead ahead. If measures are not taken by the U.S. to put dollars back into foreign circulation, U.S. exporters, and the nation, will find themselves in deep trouble. Already, Britain has cut her U.S. imports by $800 million a year. In the last two months, many Latin American countries have sharply curtailed luxury and "nonessential" imports...
...their portrayal of the shabby, menacing beauty of U.S. cities (there is a breath-taking street view of a Los Angeles rooming house in Doubloon) and 2) in the minor players who, with only a minute or so to make their points, impersonate, with passionate proficiency, the deep-sea fish of the underworld...