Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week contract last month, no one was surprised: Bradley is an exceptional drummer. He can play three-beat rhythms with one hand while he plays four-beat with the other. He can switch hands instantly to travel from the bone-dry clatter of the wood block to the rich depth of the snare...
...change of attitude seems to have been brought about by recent improvements in seismic instruments and methods of using them. One new method is to lower instruments as much as 10,000 ft. into abandoned oil wells. At this depth they are sheltered from surface noise and are five to ten times more sensitive to earth waves from bomb tests or earthquakes. Another promising system is to spread out many instruments in cross-shaped array on the surface of the earth. When their readings are compared to eliminate the effects of noise, traces of earth waves be come much clearer...
...self-contained universe without external points of reference. Normal society judges and humanizes itself from ethical and spiritual vantage points that are above society. The terror of criminal society, as Losey presents it, is that it is a kingdom of one-eyed men, whose lack of ethical depth perception prevents them from seeing, knowing, or redeeming themselves...
...rich deep black alluvial soil" of Mississippi, Faulkner created a darker earth: Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional fief 2,400 square miles in breadth and two centuries in depth, veined with the spilled blood of successive owners-the Indians, the Spanish, the French for a moment in time, then the Anglo-Saxons, "roaring with Protestant scripture and boiled whisky, changing the face of the earth: felling a tree which took 200 years to grow, in order to extract from it a bear or a capful of wild honey...
Hitting .300 last week, Willie already had 19 home runs to lead both leagues. But in past seasons not even Mays could bring the Giants a pennant. This year the Latins hope to provide the much needed strength in depth...