Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been hard to bear. Last week the Britons were busy doing something about it. To mark the city's 400th anniversary next month, they had hit upon a handsome gift: a clock, not nearly so big as Big Ben, but big enough to bang out the hours in deep and dependable tones. Topping a 33-ft. granite tower, the $10,000 clock will stand smack in the middle of 2-mi.-high La Paz.* Cracked Buenavista: "What is the use of having a British clock if the man who sets it is a Bolivian? Let us by all means...
...calls his book "an excursion into romantic zoology." It is a lighthearted excursion. A man of deep zoological faith, Ley believes that animal myths are based on actual fact, and that many fearful and wonderful creatures, undreamed of (and unlisted) by more unromantic zoologists, may still roam the earth...
Another Part of the Forest. Dirty doings in the deep South as Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes cut their eyeteeth, with Fredric March and Florence Eldridge (TIME...
Hawthorne's imagination was, to put it simply, both the gift and the burden of his life. He was "deep," and brainy enough to see and explore with detachment the dangers, for one of his heritage, in the life of imagination. For generations that heritage had been profoundly Puritan. After his sea-captain father died of yellow fever in Surinam, his mother lived in Salem as a recluse; his uncle, Robert Manning, took charge of Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters...
...field play, the Gymnasts probably held the edge, for the Crimson never did get its short passing game functioning. For most of the contest the Varsity was forced to play Springfield at its own game--looping passes from the halfback line to its forward line, which played deep in Crimson territory...