Word: divericate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suit has arrangements so that the diver can cast off his ropes and telephone cable and work freely, with ballast tanks which may be emptied by compressed air so as to enable him to rise to the surface and maneuver. Because the diver, thus converted into a sort of one-man submarine, is not subjected to high air pressure, he can rise to the surface rapidly without ill effects...
...worst influences in this tendency, he said, is that of the moving pictures. "I have only seen one really worth-while film," he said, "which was one starring the diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...
...solid is harder to penetrate initially than a fluid, once penetrated, there is a hole which offers no subsequent resistance, whereas a fluid always exerts a pressure, increasing with depth. So it happens that, although man has been down in the earth for many thousands of feet, no diver had ever until recently been down more than about 30 fathoms (180 ft.) below the surface...
...attempt to radiocast a diver's voice from the seabottom having been successfully carried out in Philadelphia (TIME, Aug. 11), the Radio Corporation of America last week radiocasted the voice of an aeronaut, a mile above the earth...
...diver on the sea bottom, 50 ft. down, described what he saw. As anybody knows who has been there, the sea bottom is no more interesting than an equal stretch of dry land, unless one is especially interested in seaweed or fish. The diver was on the bottom for only six or seven minutes, but he managed to find two sunken ships and several bottles of bootleg rum with the corks removed. The romance of the sea bottom is generally in inverse proportion to the extent of one's familiarity with...