Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They attempted to turn back. Then, eyewitnesses said, the three planes seemed to be blown together; there was a violent crash as they momentarily interlocked, a burst of flame. Like two stones the Santa Maria and Pinta fell to earth, crashed side by side in the bottom of a shallow creek. On fire, the Nina struggled a few seconds, crashed a few hundred yards from its companions. All seven occupants of the three planes were instantly killed, those in the Nina burned beyond recognition...
...whelming catastrophes that hit the family, while a third male is left his ludicrously parasitic self. The mother of the family, however, is ennobled from the position of a comical termagant to that of a tight-lipped, long-suffering heroine. When the daughter is deserted in pregnancy by her shallow, pedantic lover, only the mother is able to pierce the hollow censure of society, and acquit her of guilt. The father is brutalized. He is transformed from a lazy, ne'er-do-well, ignorant, strutting braggart to a despicably small man intent upon upholding his supposititious good name. Having...
Although the seas were heavy, Captain Yardley decided to take his passengers off by ship's boats attached to a line sent ashore. The inexperienced sailors-last minute pickups from West Coast hiring halls-according to passengers, capsized two lifeboats in shallow waters trying to land the line. Miraculously without loss of life, all passengers landed on the islands during the next 36 hours. Meantime, on board the President Hoover an unruly group of the crew-estimated from "a dozen" to "most of them"-broke into the bar and began a party. They then decided to visit the passengers...
...premise of those who believe that the undergraduate and faculty should not force students in the College to conform to their own standards of conduct, intellectual behavior, and methods of thought seems to be the idea that all thoughts, stupid or intelligent, sound or shallow, are worthy of enthusiastic acceptance just because somebody has had a big thrill thinking them out. It must appear on reflection, however, that some people possess powers of thought denied to others, that some minds are incapable of formulating rational ideas as distinguished from mere "emoting," and that often those who shout loudest about...
...selections are naturally short and shallow, which both proves that they are representative and also enables many of them to be reproduced in toto. They are arranged in order of complexity, and, incidentally, alphabetically. The first entry in the book is an example of pure straightforwardness with no imagination or enlargement...