Word: shallowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Danish, Swedish and Dutch delegates to the conference congratulated Phillips on his speech. At home, many British Laborites also agreed with him. Said one: "[At] our present stage in history, when everyone must determine between the fundamentals of democracy and dictatorship, we've got to drop the comparatively shallow discriminations that once seemed important." Outside the Labor Party, Britons were not so pleased. Said one Tory: "It's no use Labor putting on the bridal gown for the Americans-they won't be fooled by that...
...rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant designed Washington for the Potomac swamps, and a U.S. architect, Walter Burley Griffin, drew up the plans for Australia's Canberra, which replaced a sheep station in a wide, shallow river valley...
Inside, though, the Assembly building will be elaborately functional. Its central, circular meeting room, capped by a shallow dome, will have tiers of balconies, press boxes and television booths. Built to hold 850 delegates, 900 spectators and 350 reporters, it will supply everyone present with a fixed receiver for listening to translations of what goes on. Delegates' desks will have mikes as well, and a pushbutton voting system. If all goes well, U.N. delegates will be settling into their new desks by the spring...
Earthquakes seem to happen at random; they seldom give advance warning, and cannot be predicted with any certainty. Last week Professor Hugo Benioff of CalTech explained his theory that all great shallow earthquakes (originating in rock slippage less-than 45 miles below the surface) have a common cause and are released by a single "mechanism...
...Renaissance overtones and technical eclat, Dali's canvas did no honor to its great subject. Compared with the religious paintings of such consistent moderns as Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse, Dali's was approximately as chill and shallow as a bent watch...