Word: depths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even the war on Rum Row between the wet fleet and the dry has killed the news interest of a speech on the world court, especially when that speech is made by the fiery Senator Borah. But let the observer take heart at this apparent indication of depth and breadth of thinking in America, the cynic points out that the arguments advanced by the Senator are hopelessly trite and superficial...
...Blue Peter. The wisemen, who are at once the surface and now and then the depth of Broadway show life, trooped expectantly to this first production of The Stagers. The group, which proposes to forge through a year of intelligent productions under this name, is headed by Edward Goodman. Mr. Goodman was of old the shepherd of the Washington Square Players in those days when the germ of the now imposing Theatre Guild was generating in Greenwich Village...
...Each revival," continued Professor Whitehead, "touches a lower peak than its predecessor, and each period of slackness a lower depth. The average curve marks a steady fall in religious tone. In some countries the interest in religion is higher than in others. But in those countries where the interest is relatively high, it falls as the generations pass. Religion is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life...
Premier. When Premier Edouard Herriot issued his political program last year (TIME, June 30), he probably did not realize the depth and width of the religious quarrel he was engendering...
William Beebe, with his marine expedition aboard the steamship A returns (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, Mar. 16), having perused the Sargasso Sea amid high waves, and drawn up from great depth small fishes-red, black, silver, transparent, luminous, stalk-eyed, snake-jawed; but being continuously disturbed by high waves which scattered the Sargassum weed, secured in one haul in his last day there five Amphioxii (believed to have been the intermediate stage between invertibrate and vertibrate life). They have a cartilaginous backbone. The value of the catch is that hitherto Amphioxii have seldom been known far from shore...