Word: depth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like that. Just salt the meal and roll the oysters in it. Then, let the grease get boiling hot. You want the grease about six inches deep. Then you take the oysters and you place the oysters in the strainer, and you put the strainer in the grease, full depth down to the bottom. Then you fry those oysters in boiling grease until they turn a gold-copper color and rise to the top, and then, you take them out and let them cool just a little bit before you eat them. . . . There is no telling how many lives have...
...establishment of differentiated sections, as is now done in History 1, would free those students who have the ability and initiative to assimilate the ground-work of facts for themselves for more generalized and interesting class work, while the slower ones would not find themselves perpetually beyond their depth...
...April the nominating committee of the New York Stock Exchange posts a hand-picked slate of officers and governors for the May elections. During the preceding month it holds three open meetings at which brokers suggest candidates, make stump speeches. In the end, however, the nominating committee from the depth of its own wisdom names whom it pleases. Throughout the 143 years since organized trading began under the old buttonwood tree on Wall Street, official nominations have been, almost without exception, tantamount to election...
...some ruins at Zimbabwe, came to the conclusion that he had found King Solomon's mines. In the Rand, world's No. i gold field, Hammond introduced deep-level mining, started one (the Robinson Deep) that is still being profitably worked at 8,500 ft.-the greatest depth on record...
...plots woven into the tale have to be treated so briefly that they lose much of their meaning, seeming, in fact, just a bit ridiculous. They have a tendency, in addition, to give the whole the appearance of having been rather sketchily and loosely thrown together. Much of the depth of the story, as experienced by reading the book, is lost; although enough of the tender pathos and bitter struggle and loving adoration of the original still remains to bring the narrative vividly to life, a quality which is greatly enhanced by the high standard of acting on the part...