Word: depths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past five years the Butte mines have spent thousands of dollars in ventilation improvements, drilling special shafts, sprinkling working faces, installing fans. They have increased the flow of fresh air several hundred per cent, have made it possible to mine copper and other metals where ore veins reach a depth of more than 5,000 feet and the rock temperature is 115 to 120 degrees. Practically the whole population of Butte (80,000 in boom times) is dependent on the industry, and the total production of the district is now in excess of $1,500,000,000, employing as many...
...with them but with their sort. We can find them, or things very much like them, in any issue of the Evening Post, and chuckle at their wit and ponder over their philosophy. But in a volume we somehow look for a more sustained effort, more unity, and greater depth. It is not that we like the paragraphs less, but that they shine poorly in contrast with what their author has done in other fields...
...returning from the baseball games at Soldiers Field, frequently pause to wonder at the most bloodcurdling game played in this country--lacrosse. The players run far and wide--especially far and the sticks, which developed from Indian war-clubs, are still used for this primitive purpose. The organization in depth, instead of stabilizing the conflict as it does in ordinary warfare, merely causes a sort of harmonic motion up and down the field. This business goes on either until the war-clubs have accomplished their work, which happens very rarely, since American teams are provided with plenty of substitutes...
...unsuccessful attempt to break up the ice which has been rapidly forming on the Charles River to the depth of about an inch and a half was made yesterday by the crew management. A battering ram in the shape of a plow was constructed out of heavy planking and was attached to the bow of one of the coaching launches, but the engine refused to start, due to some more ice in the gasoline feed line. Though baffled by the cold yesterday, the attempt to clear the river will be resumed this morning...
...sample the various fields and make certain that his special choice is right. It opens the view for him so that he can judge what outside courses will best supplement his particular interest. And it clears the way so that he is left free to advance to a considerable depth in at least one direction, his Concentration, which would be impossible if he proceeded in that direction during his earlier, and more immature years...