Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drawing deep down into their reserves, the Varsity took the quarter-mile with ease, and the final free style relay was captured by a motley crew that included a distance man and a breast-stroker...
...lengthy exposition of this country's policy toward China, the Chief Executive formally expressed "deep regret" that peace and unity have not been achieved in that country and asserted that China "has a clear responsibility to the other United Nations to eliminate armed conflict...
...petroleum was formed from organic remains which accumulated on the sea floor. The mystery: How was it done? Almost all organic substances contain oxygen, while petroleum is largely hydrocarbons, compounds of carbon and hydrogen only. Chemists have been unable to decide how the oxygen was eliminated. Some thought that deep-down bacteria did it (TIME, Dec. 17, 1945), but others politely said...
...famed Ether Dome of Massachusetts General Hospital, a blond British electroencephalographer named William Grey Walter unveiled his invention-a yellow box, resembling a deep-freeze unit, full of vacuum tubes, condensers, switches, wires. Walter applied to a patient's head the electrodes of an electroencephalograph (a machine that traces the peaks and valleys of the brain waves, helps to diagnose epilepsy, brain tumors, etc.). Then he attached his analyzing machine to the electroencephalograph...
...Below Schooldays. From a campus window near Fairbanks last week, 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, shirt-sleeved President Bunnell watched his 335 students trudge to their classes in knee-deep snow and 30-below temperatures. They were so used to the view that only a few paused to look off at 20,300-ft. Mt. McKinley, in the distance, copper-red in the glare of a dead-of-winter sun. Skis stuck in the snow made picket fences around the dorms...