Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because TIME didn't print a glossary, Are brickbats flying in, I wonder? Your "Smiley" leaves me at a lossary-I just don't dig so deep Down Under...
...choosing a college best suited to their needs, arranges for the necessary tests, provides them with money to supplement whatever scholarships they win. Since 1948 Nessfeness has placed 4,000 boys and girls in 300 interracial colleges. In only two years its Southern Project, which concentrates on the Deep South, has placed 520. At the same time, the service has begun sending promising students to Eastern prep schools. The students have done astonishingly well: of the 520 Southern Project students, only four had dropped out for academic reasons by last June. Some Nessfeness case histories...
...concrete platform on graceful stilts, shaded by a broad mahogany overhang and centered on a pool and an airy stairway in the interior court. Though the offices are to be individually air conditioned, the hollow building is designed to be cool on its own. It is one room deep all around for through ventilation, with a veranda-corridor rimming the interior court. The roof is a wooden parasol. Jalousies with mahogany slats protect the windows from noonday heat and glare. The entire mahogany structure literally comes...
...record begins that Mrs. Usill is nearing the end of the first stage of labor; dilatation of the cervix, now almost complete, has been accomplished with little discomfort: "She is lying relaxed on her right side, as she has been taught." The sound of the patient's deep and rapid breathing signals the onset of each new contraction; they are now coming three minutes apart. In a quiet moment, a microphone attached to the doctor's stethoscope picks up the fetal heartbeat, amplified to thunderous volume. "That's fine," he remarks. "One hundred forty-five and going...
...Director Billy Wilder has filmed and cut it, is a striking piece of cinematic craftsmanship. One by one, like bricks in a rising wall the difficulties are stacked in front of the hero (James Stewart) and in the moviegoer's mind: bad weather, the sod runway almost ankle-deep in mud and spotted with potholes, high wires and high trees near the field's edge, engine running 30 revs too low, gas load at least a hundred gallons more than the plane has ever taken off with, pilot already worn from lack of sleep, worried faces of mechanics...