Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for this is two-fold. For one thing, Dick Clasby, the All-American tailback of seasons' past, has gone, and for another, two of the Crimson's reserve quarterbacks, Joe Conzelman, and Phil Haughey are good passers. In addition, sophomore tailback Matt Botsford, the deep man in the single wing, throws an accurate pass. Sophomore fullback Tony Gianelly combines with wingback Bob Cowles to supply most of the Harvard running power...
Tailbacks Matt Botsford and Joe Conzelman spent most of the afternoon throwing from the deep position, while Tony Glanelly and Dick Cohmler worked out at fullback...
...bottoms of the deep oceans were once believed to be smooth, but modern sounding gear has found all sorts of irregularities. Certain great areas, however, are almost as level as the water surface above them, and the origin of these smooth "abyssal plains" is something of a mystery. Many theories about them have been proposed, including the easy explanation that the plains are smooth because nothing ever happened to make them otherwise...
...heavier than clear water, that coursed intermittently down the slopes of the continents and deposited their sediment far out on the bottom of the ocean. Most of the sediment, he thinks, was carried down in remote geological ages. The turbidity currents probably started near land. They cut deep gorges (e.g., the famous Hudson Canyon) in the continental slopes and dumped their silt and sand in deep basins in the irregular ocean bottom. When the nearest basin was full, the mud-river ran across it just as a river would do on dry land, and started to fill the next basin...
When Commander Mackenzie got wind of Spencer's fantastic threats, his imagination boiled over. His ship, he wrote, was about to become "a lawless wanderer upon the deep." He clapped Spencer, Cromwell and Small in irons. But, he felt, the crew's every move showed "sullenness" and "portentous" looks, and four more "mutineers" were put in irons. Spencer and his two cronies were executed without trial, hanged from the yardarm, and ceremoniously buried...