Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, United Press staffers gathered this week to celebrate an event that was uniquely of their own making: the United Press Associations' 50th anniversary. If the U.P. men bragged more and drank more than most newsmen at play, they could be said merely to be obeying the deep competitive urge that has made their hardfisted, bustling wire service second in size only to the 109-year-old Associated Press-and often ahead of it in covering the news...
...that were obviously trees, he now produced the segmented Apple Tree in Bloom (see color page), a lyric, rhythmic design of orchestrated nuances and subtle harmonies. Even more dramatic evidence of his progression lies in his rare self-portraits: in 1900 he saw himself as a religion-seeker, with deep, glowing eyes (a pose that later so distressed him that he threatened to destroy the work with an automatic pistol); by 1942 his portrait had become a sculpture in flat white plaster cubes and planes...
...sport fishing, sponsored by North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering. They were the kind of pupils a professor prays for-housewives, doctors, lawyers, mechanics. None had a thought of cutting a class; all were anxious for final exams, the chance to check theory with practice in the deep-running Gulf Stream ten miles offshore, in the surf on the white-duned Carolina beaches, or on calm, clear Carolina lakes...
...inland-bound gold seekers of the 1840s, forced the Southern Pacific railroad and later a highway to slink humbly around its base. But it does not deter the road builders of 1957. Their rugged and powerful machines are slashing through the hill, cutting a 360-ft.-deep, 2,200-ft.-long scar -the biggest man-made road gash since the Panama Canal. All told, the machines will move 8,500,000 cu. yd. of earth, enough to cover Manhattan Island with a 4.5-in. layer...
...American Art. The panorama of road builders stringing highways across the land reflects a peculiarly American genius, one that lies deep in the traditional pioneering instincts of the nation. No other country has come close to the U.S. in creating the mechanized giants of road building. "Road building," said one contractor, "is really the American art." Said the late Bernard DeVoto: "A highway is a true index of our culture. The machinery that builds it embodies developments in technology, invention, industrial progress, education, finance and so many other things that our whole cultural heritage has gone into producing...