Word: depths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereafter, who knows ? If he reaches 15,000 ft. in his present depth vehicle, Dr. Hartman proposes an even stronger, more complicated one to reach Ocean's nethermost pit. There is known to be oil beneath parts of the seafloor. There must also be rarer minerals, unimagined fishes, unguessable vestiges of the planet's youth. And even should nothing of "practical" value be found, the divers may experience the exaltation of explorers as intrepid as any that ever served Science-silent, in an abyss off Darien...
Said Inventor Perry, absorbed in his instrument: "Yes, we're not far from oil now. A matter of feet perhaps, I'm sure. . . . Oil is where you find it." He added that drilling would continue to the depth of the deepest wells...
...French officers, astounded, took soundings along the line of breakers for 50 nautical miles. Docking at Rochefort, they reported that the depth of that central stretch of the Bay of Biscay no longer averaged several thousands of metres, but between 34 and 70 metres...
...entire site of the new school must be raised to a grade 18 feet above the river the dirt which is removed will simply be piled around the excavations to increase the height of the land as a whole and it will not be necessary to excavate the entire depth of the basements. In addition to the dirt which will be secured from the excavation work it is estimated that a large amount of earth must still be hauled in to raise the grade to the proposed 18 foot level...
...world. One of them was half filled. The other 17 were dry as the widow's cruse, were rapidly deteriorating into a useless mass of rust. Admiral McDonald, Commandant of the Pearl Harbor Naval District, admitted that corrosion had developed in at least one case to the depth of 3/16...