Word: depths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week for nearly two days 16-in. armor-piercing shells, big shells, little shells, powder, TNT, nitroglycerine, depth bombs, whined and slashed wantonly, smashed hamlets in all directions, popped $93,000,000 worth of Government property, slaughtered many a U. S. soldier, ripped shell holes, thundered, wounded and injured over a hundred, far and near. Fleeing refugees scuttled to remote stations, men hid in shell holes, swam the Lake, lay unsuccored on the smoking fields...
There are, according to Mrs. Wharton's definition, three dimensions to the great Russian short stories, those which comprise the French sense of form, length and breadth, and that more puissant Russian one, depth, and its accompaniment of tears. The result is "great closeness of texture with profundity of form." As a sub-variant of the short story subject in general, the critic points out the supernatural in particular as a growth indigenous to the Germanic and English soils. It is interesting to discover that in the present book there is at least one story avowedly of this class, really...
Although the club was not as fortunate in its program as in the preceding concerts it unquestionably did the best singing of the season. The tenor choir seemed more robust than at previous hearings this was especially evident in "Out of he Depth I Cry to Thee" by Bach...
Winter in the Caucasus is severe, almost Arctic. The snow covers the ground to a depth of ten feet or more while for the thermometer to register 25 degrees below zero is not the exception but the rule. Under these conditions the refugees of the Near East can live only if, through the charity of peoples more fortunate than they, they obtain clothing to protect them from the elements...
...airplane is master of the heights, is the submarine master of the depths. The lowest which a U. S. submarine has ever gone is 315 feet below surface-and that only by accident.* Last week off Portsmouth, N. H., Lieutenant Commander George A. Rood took the new V-2 down to 220 feet. To get there it took three different plunges-first to a depth of 50 feet, then a shifting of ballast, a plunge to 110 feet, another ballast-adjustment, and then a final plunge to 220 feet, at which level the underwater boat traveled successfully some seven miles...