Word: depth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Superbly gifted with the common touch, as an editorial writer Mr. Brisbane created in his millions of published words a monument more remarkable for its smooth flow and clarity than for depth or originality of thought. An example of Brisbane's writing at its best: "To many fear of death is worse than death. . . . Death is soon over, fear is dreadful and prolonged agony. . . . Crillon, greatest fighter of them all, laid out in death, was found to have wounds on every inch of his body in front, not a scar on his back. Of him it could be said...
...operations, explained Dr. Freeman, this instrument "is inserted in the anteromedial [front and centre] direction to a depth of four centimetres below the surface of the cortex. The stylet is pressed in, forming a loop near the distal end of the instrument. The leucotome is rotated through one complete circle, cutting a sphere or core of white matter in the pre-frontal area about ten millimetres in diameter. The stylet is withdrawn a few millimetres thus replacing the loop within the cannula. A second core is cut at a depth of three centimetres and a third at two centimetres...
...course there is not the depth to the column that we find in other departments of TIME, but I, a longtime reader, consider it a feature included in the newsstand or subscription price, and somehow or other I feel cheated when, upon procuring my weekly copy and hastily scanning the table of contents, I find Miscellany not listed. Once I was enraged to find it in the table of contents when actually there was no such column in that particular issue...
...fact remain, however, that "It Can't Happen Here" is a creditable piece of work. Much, of course, is lost in the transference, much of the depth and background of the characters' lives has been sacrificed in favor of the more melodramatic happenings of the book. There is no denying, however, that some of the political characterizations, the mob scenes, the insolent brutality of armed ruffians, the gripping terror but persistent courage of the Jessup family become realities in the mind of the spectator...
...Bullock trusts, most of it in the fixed trusts. Hugh Bullock admitted that the figure was "technically" correct but stoutly denied that it was necessarily a reflection on his management. He could not, he argued, be taken to task because investors sold their shares in the depth of Depression...