Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true measure of Professor Babbitt. Grief, especially for an intellectual enemy, is likely to be brief, and the world of letters will not pause long to honor one who was heard but not heeded. With the loss of his penetrating criticism, there will undoubtedly be a new flow of shallow carping by the second-rate "genius" which has long been embarrassed by the dam of sound appraisal he so carefully built up. It may be that what he took for senile decadence in the political and literary life of world, especially of America, represents only the growing-pains...
Long Dragon. Because the Yellow Dragon, broad and meandering, is too shallow for modern navigation, the commerce of the West courses into China chiefly up the Long Dragon, the Yangtze, which is deep enough for foreign steamers and war boats to sail 600 miles inland up to "The Chicago of China," Hankow. Last week the Yangtze rose at the rate of one foot per day until it was a foot higher than any dikes which existed two years ago, but still four feet below the tops of the 7,000 miles of new dikes built last year by hundreds...
...Lake Hopatcong, N. J. one day last week, one Charles Emerson Berton, 20, dived into shallow water, fractured his neck. For the next two days the Bertons, Christian Scientists, kept their son in their summer bungalow. Then they took him to Ten Acres Sanitarium near Princeton, only authorized Christian Science institution in New Jersey. There, next day, Charles Berton "passed from sight...
...only, without even in this stage lifting her off the bottom. At a depth of about 48 ft. of water, being then practically inside the harbor, the dragging process went to smash, and to complete the job, the salvage officer built six pontoons which were used only in this shallow water for the final lift...
...lifted at one lift from deep water to the surface; the pontoons used on the F-4 were wholly unsuitable for deep water and constituted the major trouble on the S-51 job; indeed the salvage officer on the F-4 himself said they were "unmanageable" even on his shallow water job and expressed surprise that we succeeded in doing anything with them in deep water...