Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year another government expert visited the Andamans. What the islands now needed, he decided, was a pair of panthers to control the deer. The panthers were soon delivered, and last week New Delhi's Forestry Department announced that they are already making a deep impression on the deer population. Furthermore, it said, there should be no danger of a new epidemic of wild life on Andaman-both panthers are females...
...students at the University of the Philippines told their zoology professor, Tage U. H. Ellinger, a tall tale. Deep in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon, where they had hidden during the Japanese invasion, were a strange, small people who called themselves Abenlens. Unlike the Negritos of the region, the Pygmies were only 4½ feet tall and were light brown, almost "blond" in complexion...
...production is as attractive visually as it is aurally. Du Bois' colorful sets have remarkable depth. With skyscrapers in the distance, his Greenwich Village garden has a striking perspective, but best of all is his Village nightclub with deep reds, clutter of paintings, and mammoth mobiles. His costumes for the dances staged by Donald Saddler are equally imaginative, particularly in an expressive number about the sister's hunt for job's and in the adagio jitter-bug of the nightclub scene...
...each cable failed, the exact second of its failure was recorded by instruments on land. Other instruments determined accurately the position of each break. More information came from the repair crews. Long sections of some of the cables had been carried away and lost. Other cables were buried deep under mud and sand...
...flow. Heezen and Ewing believe that many such flows, racing for hundreds of miles through the still depths of the ocean, have carved the gorges on their slopes. The "deltas," where their finest material finally settles down, are the flat plains that form the floors of many deep ocean basins...