Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went West from New Jersey in the early 1890s by way of the Columbia School of Mines, William Butler has done most of his business through intermediaries. He was first employed by the Rockefellers at the Monte Cristo gold and silver properties near Everett. When the ore deposits proved shallow, he switched to lumber. For years an ally of the mighty Weyerhaeusers, William Butler chose to stick to the comparatively secure logging business, let others do the milling and merchandising. He got the reputation of driving a hard business bargain. A lumberman named Joe Irving, wrathful at being squeezed...
...unnatural division of House members and the holding of regular House dinners for no apparent reason are customs that must be rapidly discontinued. House solidarity and community of feeling will never be losterd by such plans. If they do not develop without artificial stimulation they are useless phrases and shallow concepts...
...rocky northern coast of Corsica sat Playwright Noel Coward, sipping a drink, waiting for his chartered yacht Mairi to pick him up. Two days before a Mediterranean squall had sent him scurrying ashore to shelter. As the storm abated he saw Mairi nose in toward shallow water, buckle up on a rock, spill her crew into the sea. Yachtsman Coward started to hike. Twenty miles down the coast he walked into the village of Ile Rousse, told his plight to a skeptical hotelkeeper, who cabled London. When Coward got back to the wreck he waded in to salvage what...
...intrusion of outsiders into the charmed circle of the Warings produces unhappiness and tragedy. Ellen, on the borderline of insanity, drives Dicky from drink to suicide. The placid, shallow Thornton cannot hold the love of Linda, most colorful member of the family, who turns to Joel, wavers between him and her small son, finally decides to divorce Thornton. Luly, mother and grandmother, dies. When in 1931 Mark Waring decides to sell The Grove for what it will fetch in bad times to save Brad, no one objects. Its day and its kind of hospitality are over...
Leaving aside water walls of earthquake origin, skyscraper waves are piled up by steady gales blowing over a great expanse of deep sea. Once formed, such waves may continue their majestic roll until broken up by slackening wind or shallow water. Loftiest ocean wave mentioned in encyclopedic discussions of the subject is a 70-footer reported by the Majestic's, officers twelve years ago. At tales of bigger ones scientists and seamen are inclined to scoff...