Word: shallowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After this first-string threat, the varsity could also gain an edge with its backfield depth, although neither squad can boast real manpower on the bench. The Bruins' test of reserve strength, which is admittedly shallow, could come against the Crimson's second line...
...that constitutes Giraudoux's action. Troy's greatest warrior, Hector (well played by Michael Redgrave), comes home to find his brother Paris home ahead of him, with Helen. Hector is determined to return Helen to Menelaus, King of Sparta, and so avoid war; nor is the assured, shallow, minxlike Helen (amusingly played by Diane Cilento) the obstacle. The real obstacles are Troy's idealists, who particularly idealize war; its elderly poets, who love celebrating young men's deaths; its common people, who are spoiling for a fight; its international lawyers, for whom a legalistic victory...
Bicycle Lake, near Barstow on California's Mojave Desert, is no place for canoes or water skiing. It is a shallow depression normally filled with 5,000 sq. yds. of dry, cracked mud. Once in a great while rain covers its surface with an inch or so of water, which evaporates in days. The rest of the time the "lake" is as dry as a stove...
...Judging American Sunday schools and finding them wanting, Dr. F. Eppling Reinartz, secretary of the United Lutheran Church in America, told the International Sunday School Convention in Cleveland that Sunday schools 1) do not "typically appraise the worth of a person" by Christian values, 2) foster a "shallow and confused" theology, 3) "do not reckon with . . . social resistance to righteousness...
Last week the diggers found a shallow grave containing the skeleton of a young man close to seven feet tall. His shield, spear and knife identified him as a Saxon of the early fifth century. All his limbs were broken, according to the pagan burial custom (perhaps to cripple the ghost), and the back of his skull had been bashed in. The diggers hoped that one of the Britons of Puddle Hill had liquidated at least one of the monstrous Saxons...