Word: depths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South African mining areas, notably that at Kimberly, occur in the form of a huge vertical funnel or crater of "pay dirt" descending into the earth to a depth of half a mile or more. At first the area can be worked from the surface by the individual prospector. Later, as the pay dirt funnel is excavated, disastrous slides begin to occur and corporations must be organized to undertake expensive subsoil mining, which has been carried to a depth of 2600 ft. in some instances. Great diamond mining fortunes, like that of the late Cecil Rhodes, are usually made...
...What ponderous luxury, weighing 46 pounds, having a diameter of 30 inches, a depth of 4 inches was brought 865 miles to be given to the President and Mrs. Coolidge? Answer: a cherry pie (containing 5,000 selected cherries) carried to White Pine Camp by Wallace H. Keep, college mate of Mr. Coolidge at Amherst, an honest publicity errand for the Grand Traverse Cherry Growers of Michigan. ¶Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg flitted in and out at White Pine Camp during most of the week. He conferred with the President on Mexico and the World Court, left...
...fight. His subtlety and strength were in expressing the homelier virtues and pleasures of mankind. He had a feeling for tools, horses, unmistakably American landscapes, Whitmanesque humanities. He would write a word like "roots" or "bones" as though it were thrusting out of his nature to the very depth of his discussion. He was an unabashed moralist, some said Puritan, but seldom to the neglect of art's due. Now there are left, besides the Messers. Canby, Boyd and Mencken, Critics Carl and Mark Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Louis Untermeyer (poetry), Ludwig Lewisohn, Joseph Wood Krutch. There is unique...
...magic; until the trance was at an end he did not breathe. To Fakir Bey, Harry Houdini, trickster, gave the lie, donned blue trunks, a white shirt, a luminous wrist watch, entered an airtight tin coffin equipped with a telephone and electric pushbutton, was lowered to the depth of the Shelton Hotel Pool, Manhattan...
WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS- Barrie's depth and delicacy beautifully revived with Helen Hayes...