Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deep down inside, the Californians did not feel that they needed the U.S. on their side in the Olympic games. They had a bumper crop of their own athletes. At Henley-on-Thames last week, the University of California's smooth eight-oared crew got off to a slow start, but never had to raise the beat too high. The coxswain simply called for a "big ten" (increasing the effort, but not the beat, for ten strokes) and Cal smoothly spurted into the lead. California won easily over Great Britain's Leander Boat Club and Norway...
Three in One. The deep feeling as well as the deep thought in Baillie's book is evident in his discussion of the Trinity...
...lake the gentleman stepped into a little boat and was rowed over to the island in its center. Ducks quacked and splattered indignantly as he stepped ashore, entered a small concrete hut, carefully closed the steel door behind him. A few minutes later he emerged hatless, took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from his brow. Dr. Hugh Watts, Chief Inspector of Explosives for the Home Office, had just disarmed his 22nd postal bomb...
...conscious "reasons" and explanations, the researchers think, are superficial and misleading. The real cause, brought out by psychiatric study, is more likely to be "a deep sense of guilt with an unquestionable penchant for self-punishment." Frequently an attempt at suicide is a symptom of some serious personality disorder. Young people, they found, are more likely than older ones to stage fake suicide attempts for dramatic effect...
...annual whirl of fall showings last week, socialites, fashion writers and buyers once again filled the Paris salons with silky ohs & ahs. They nodded and buzzed over Schiaparelli's jungle-inspired dinner dresses (trimmed with monkey fur and tiger skin), Maggy Rouff's deep-cut necklines, Jacques Path's tight, shimmering wedding gown (which was pinned together in a last-minute rush, came apart while harpists strummed an Ave Maria...