Word: depths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wonders will never cease! One of our peons, while digging for potsherds on the outskirts of the university site the other day, suddenly felt the ground give way beneath him; and before he knew it, he found himself in a large hollow space at some depth underground. His shouts attracted fellow-workmen, who helped him out with a rope and brought Senor Alvarotez, Leon Cavallo, and myself to the scene of the discovery. With torches and shovels we descended into the opening and proceeded to explore...
...character of the movement of the earth's crust can fairly be assumed to have been similar to that at the time of the San Francisco shock, in which the rocks at an unknown depth slipped horizontally past each other about 16 feet on a verticle plane. This formation, technically known as a 'fault', extends along the coast, nearly parallel to it, and stretches for a great distance on the ocean's bottom...
...with it the prerogative of a silk hat. Stable-boys take off their caps and put on silk hat. Stable-boys take off their caps and put on silk hats when they drive funeral carriages; that simple change gives them belike a dignified bearing, and indicates the warmth and depth of their sympathies...
...gained otherwise than in college, but not so basically. A house can be built without being cellared in cement but when it is cellared in cement it stands the more solidly. So the savior faire which grows out of the associations peculiar to the university has a breadth and depth and stability such as the more haphazard contacts of the outside world never yield. The round of human nature being to so large a degree the writer's habitat the college man enters it by the door instead of through the window or down the chimney...
These are rock bottom truths of the American situation of which we are reminded again by the report of the department of agriculture. In this report we have a picture of the vast fecundity of our country, the depth of its resources of wealth. The crops have been enormous, their value being about nine billions of dollars...