Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More precious than all these is the "black wealth" of the steppe: the deep, black earth that covers most of the Ukraine and stretches across the Volga into the plain of Siberia. Shorn of its black earth, the Soviet Union would die. It feeds two-thirds of Russia's 210 million people...
Late in the last quarter, with Iowa leading again, 14 to 7, Coach Leahy saw his national championship slipping away. Once more Notre Dame had the ball deep in Iowa territory, with the clock running out. This time, two Notre Dame linemen feigned injury. When the clock started up again, there was just time for three quick passes into the end zone, the last for another Guglielmi-Shannon touchdown. Iowa's prize: the upset of the week. Notre Dame's: a slightly tarnished...
...indict cigarette smoking, and acquit the smoking of pipes and cigars? Because the cancer-causing factor apparently must be retained deep in the lungs, a condition usually found in cigarette smokers, who inhale deeply, not in pipe and cigar smokers, who seldom inhale. ¶ Why does lung cancer concentrate on men in middle life? Because the cancer-causing factor seems to be a slow-acting agent, which may need half an individual's normal life span to do its deadly work. ¶ If cigarette tar contains a cancer-causing agent, why don't all cigarette smokers get lung...
...deep knowledge of his period coupled with a naturally flashing temper has somewhat limited Jones' patience with undergraduates. He is under the impression that the academic duds migrate to his course, looking for a gut. If this be so, they are generally rudely awakened, for Jones has little patience with students like the one who wrote in his blue book that he wished to discuss the nineteenth-century poet "Omer Chiam." But Jones thinks that both the hour and the lecture system itself are fine. "Nine o'clock is a sybaritic hour," he says. "The trouble is that...
...test of 3-D drawing power, Kate has been filmed both plus and minus the extra dimension, New York showing the flat version and Boston the deep one. With all its opulence, however, the musical doesn't need 3-D. Kiss Me, Kate, in fact, needs nothing more...