Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cards for the various symptoms and characteristics of corneal disease. Then he examined a patient, asked the usual questions and recorded the findings by hitting selected keys from 200 on the machine's keyboard. Examples: no ulceration (a negative sign can be as important as the positive), deep-seated opacity, deep-seated blood vessels, no edema, normal sensitivity. Then the machine sorted the cards, rejecting those that did not match the patient's symptoms. It offered half a dozen as meeting all the requirements, e.g., congenital syphilis, result of an old injury or chemical burn-more likely from...
...compulsion to flee and hide from God ... in the guise of exact science ... In the name of science God is explained as a mere reflex of a primitive state of fear . . . Thus the system promises man deliverance from God and, simultaneously, deliverance from the anxiety deep down in himself. Suppose the flaming cherub were not really posted before the closed gate of Paradise at all? Suppose the gate were unlocked and all you need do is to enter, in mighty concert with progressive humanity . . .? Would you, then, not at last find steadiness and purpose...
Nefertete's bust, also a splendid experiment , found long and deep refuge in the Nile's mud and sand. It was brought to life at last by a German expedition of 1912. Amazingly well-preserved the bust lacks only bits from the ears, a royal viper from the crown and one rock-crystal...
...depths of 2,000 ft. to 5,000 ft. Then, in 1949, Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy dared to go deeper, brought in a well from between 7,000 ft. and 8,000 ft. But McCarthy did not follow through. Not until lesser-known Wildcatter E. C. Scurlock brought home a deep payload late in 1954 did the Pierce Junction boom begin...
...past year it has become the biggest of all Gulf Coast oil booms. Thirty-five companies have sunk 171 producing wells deep into the treeless flat, now get around 24,000 bbls. daily from the field. Said one Houston newsman: "The whole town is on the verge of being overrun by derricks." Oil rigs are creeping within 100 yds. of the residences and businesses off Houston's primary north-south thoroughfare, South Main Street. One derrick stands 75 yds. from the roller coaster at Playland Park: another is within No. 7-iron distance (125 yds.) of the South Main...