Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops gained a solid footing, preparatory to Japanese efforts to nip off Shanghai from the rest of China by closing pincers from the North and South, now that Japan's frontal attack has failed to take Shanghai for 13 weeks. This week 39 Japanese destroyers and shallow draft gunboats were bombarding the Shanghai peninsula's southern coast and the Japanese landing force, variously estimated between 5,000 and 25,000 had advanced to within 15 mi. of Shanghai...
...shallow tanks of nutrient solution, Dr. Gericke has grown tomatoes, potatoes, corn, beans, gladioli, begonias, dozens of other plants and vegetables-free from drought, disease, insects, floods, erosion (TIME, March 1). In a tank of 1,100 of an acre area he grew 1,226 Ib. of lush red tomatoes. His giant tobacco plants are especially impressive (see cut). From 25 sq. ft. of water he got 100 cantaloupes, declared this to be 20 times the yield expected from soil. Pushing against the roof of his greenhouse, with its massive roots in water, is an 18-ft. banana plant...
...particle repeatedly until it attains a speed corresponding to extremely high voltage, thus dispensing with a discharge tube altogether. Most conspicuous feature of the apparatus is an 85-ton electro-magnet whose poles face each other vertically across an 8-in. gap. In the gap is placed a shallow cylindrical tank, pumped out to a high vacuum so that particles inside may move freely without interference from air molecules. Ions such as deuterons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen) are fed in at the centre...
Steve Brennan, Varsity weight man, won the 35 pound weight throw at 48 feet two inches. With handicaps, Robert Sears '40, Gale Arnold '39 and Bill Shallow '40 followed respectively. The high jump was won by Freshman Robert Partlow with a jump of five feet, eight inches. Following him came Dave Wilson '40, Guill Aertsen '40, and Jim Grover...
...inhabitants to be fire makers. Dr. Steward viewed the skeleton as an important link between the well-known Basket Makers and the mysterious, much earlier "Folsom Men" whose bodily remains have not been found although they left an abundance of their characteristic "Folsom points"-stone weapons with a shallow groove chipped out on each side of the blade. Dr. Steward estimated the age of the Salt Lake child at 5,000 to 12,000 years...