Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy-go-lucky migrant workers in the flimsy canvas-topped truck were a typical grab-bag assortment from among the 12,000 Deep South Negro laborers who annually sweep northward with the spring to range through North Carolina. It was green-bean-picking time, and this Florida-recruited group had spent some three weeks in the state sweating through the day to feed the canneries, bedding down at night like nomads-men, women and children-in a temporary camp near Mount Olive. Now, en route from the camp to the fields at Dunn, they were rocking along nine miles from...
Measuring deep ocean currents was almost impossible until Britain's Dr. John Crossley Swallow developed a "float" (it sinks). Made of strong aluminum tubing closed at the ends, it is carefully weighted so that it barely sinks in sea water. As the depth increases, pressure makes the water heavier. The aluminum tubes resist the pressure better than the water does, so eventually the float stops sinking. It will hang at any desired level while a battery-powered transmitter sends ultrasonic beeps that carry for miles...
...Atlantis from Woods Hole, selected stations off the South Carolina coast where the Gulf Stream runs rapidly northward. The scientists on the Atlantis began sampling water from the surface to the bottom. This gave the differences of temperature, salinity, oxygen content, etc., that theoreticians think are associated with deep-down currents...
There is a deep concern that the undergraduate years may become a transitory stop-gap, a short breather between secondary school and graduate education. Within such a concept, College education would wither; the contribution would deteriorate, and the meaning of an A.B. degree would diminish...
...demands placed upon the teaching fellow and upon the professor by the student will, in all likelihood, grow heavier in the next few years. As the level of undergraduate intelligence rises the demand for a deep and more creative teacher will grow stronger. That the level of intelligence is rising is obvious--the class of '56 scored a median of 583 on its Standard Achievement Tests while the median for the class...