Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gunnar Larsson had good reason to feel discouraged. He had tried the 50-mile grind in eight previous races and never finished better than fourth. Now he was 35, and the long trail that led from Sälen, near the Norwegian border, to the small town of Mora, deep in the picturesque province of Dalecarlia, looked tougher than ever. Weather on the course veered from dim to foul. At the starting line, mist lay heavy over the hilltops, and skis had to be waxed carefully for cold snow. Later the trail wound into warmer valleys, and Gunnar would have...
...Northern industry, the newcomers are compressed into slums where squalid conditions, strange customs and limited opportunity seem to lay bare more of the bad than the good in them. Coming from states whose literacy rates are below the national average (exception: Missouri), the clannish, independent migrants show a deep-rooted aversion not only for the law, but also for sanitation, schooling, church and most other alien urban institutions as well. Though police, school, health and social-welfare agencies all agree that these newcomers are their No. 1 problem, few Chicagoans were aware of the seriousness of that problem until last...
...mahogany desk, in a suite of offices in Newark built in the days when insurance men spent heavily for purposes of prestige. Hand-carved Honduras mahogany frames the president's doors and windows; the walls are covered with silver-filigreed blue paper, the ceiling fringed with gold leaf; deep piled rugs smother the floor. Shanks sometimes works in his shirtsleeves, dials his own phone...
...heart research alone, the Pru has a file of 25,000 electrocardiograms, one of the biggest in the world, which it uses to study the effects of the various heartbeat patterns (P, Q, R, S and T-Waves). Years ago the Pru refused to accept applicants whose cardiograms showed deep Q3-waves. Now it knows that deep Q3-waves are often meaningless, accepts most applicants. The Pru never says that any one individual will die sooner than another. What it does say is that, actuarily, in any given group of 1,000 people with a heart abnormality, possibly 30% will...
...roots of French political weakness are deep. Localism, distrust of authority, political cynicism, and historical issues (like clerical education) are imbedded in the French mind. These attitudes will not change until structural revisions in the Republic force them to. French politics must cease to be the national sport, and must command the serious and constructive attention of parliamentarians and electorate alike...