Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secondary-almost a minor-problem. After all, there are bulldozers and concrete mixers and prefabricated building methods. . . . But what will repair the inward damage, the spiritual destruction? . . . Nothing. Something has happened to Europe's ideas of honor, of morality, of faith, hope and charity which goes so deep that no restorative power now in evidence will measure up to the task of restoration...
...attributed to war-time sailors. The full story is that staying "shore-side" meant immediate drafting, which, for good or bad, is never mentioned in the current charges. Further, the purely civilian status so prized by merchant seamen passed with other myths as a ship left the pier for deep waters. At sea, in convoy or out, all men were subject to certain articles of war, articles that cover union men as well as Navy yeomen, battleships as well as battered Liberties. In port, these crews, as civilians, had prerogatives denied members of the Armed Forces. The stories...
...became chairman of the Council's Extra-Curricular Activities Committee with his first task that of extending the range of activities open to the present abnormal numbers of students and of recommending ways of securing financial responsibility in undergraduate organizations, both problems about which College officials have admitted deep concern...
...enjoys his work and does well enough at it to provide the little woman with striking Edith Head gowns and the smartest interiors that Paramount's art department can whip together. But Joan is terribly depressed by it all. Bing's admittedly eccentric profession fills her with deep insecurity and a sense of her husband's unstable character. Fortunately, while she broods about her soap opera dilemma, Bing has an opportunity to sing snatches of some 21 lovely songs and Astaire goes into his dance...
Somewhere deep inside Lincoln there was a kind of literary genius, as surely as there was in Edgar Allan Poe or Walt Whitman. It shines strong in his great state papers; it glows steadily in his lesser efforts. It is as unmistakable as the man himself, in the letter the President wrote Jan. 26, 1863, to the Union Army's Major General Joseph Hooker...