Word: depth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headed by captain Swisher Digit the team went thru a long drill which included scooping scotch and sodas out of highball glasses. Commenting on this, Coach Waters explained, "the scotch being heavier than water strengthens the finger muscles, and the depth of the glasses forces the boys to get their scoop strokes lower, an essential fundamental for high scoring...
Originally planned for the end of this week, the work has been held up because of the rain, which has filled the excavation pit with water, necessitating electric pumps to empty it. The foundations when built will go down 22 feet below the surface, which is an unusual depth for a building of this type. This is due to the fact that the basement will contain two floors of book-stacks...
...citizens who want to learn to fly have a wide choice of courses to pick from, all dependent on the applicant's age, fitness, depth of purse. If he wants his training for nothing, the Air Corps will take any healthy, well-schooled male between the ages of 20 and 26, feed, clothe, shelter and train him for a year, pay him $75 a month, almost guarantee a defense force or airline flyer's job at the end of the course. Last week two other ways were introduced. Tennessee began sending out application blanks for five State schools...
Fact is that no frog can live by cutaneous respiration for more than a year. Common-sense consensus was that the Ellensburg frogs, actually garden variety, must have climbed into some narrow crack to hibernate, been washed down & down by seeping water to the extraordinary depth at which they were found...
...making transpolar flights to the U. S. The scientists discovered that the air around the Pole was not constantly at high barometric pressure, but, on the contrary, at constantly low pressure. Another surprise was a swarm of crabs, jellyfish and red crayfish, brought up in a net from a depth of 3,000 feet...