Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manitoba. First discovery of a mosasaur skull was made in 1780 by quarrymen near Maestrict, Holland. The fossil started a lawsuit, attained such fame that a French general attacking Maestrict ordered his gunners not to molest the house containing it. Cruising the shallow seas of the Chalk Age (60-100 million years ago), the mosasaurs, though true reptiles, were completely aquatic. Their legs had become flippers. They had formidably toothed mouths which a specially jointed lower jaw enabled them to open very wide. The smallest species was eight feet long, the largest more than 40. The big ones could swallow...
...Sakonnet Point, where rocky capes bracket a two-mile beach, off Brenton's Reef Lightship and the Narragansett shore where curious eddies twist in the shallow surf, there began last week the solemn business of picking a yacht to defend the America's Cup next September. After a week of trials, to be followed by another series in July, a third in August, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee had seen this year's three contenders under sail six times...
...effectively prevent war in the event of a critical situation arising. Mr. Hutchinson's analysis of the feeling prevalent throughout the world today is adequate but his assertion that only the Protestant clergy can form a nucleus for a pacifist opposition in the case of a threatened war is shallow since he falls to take into account that large number of youths today who are vehemently opposed to serving as fodder for enemy guns...
...weeks after she had been snatched was June Robles, 6, granddaughter of a Tucson cattleman. No ransom was paid, no snatcher caught. From Chicago officials had received a special delivery airmail letter directing them to a spot g-2 mi. from Tucson. They found June Robles lying in a shallow hole, chained by her ankles, covered with tin, burlap and cactus. Beside her lay a jug of water, a loaf of fairly fresh bread and some wilted oranges and vegetables. She was thin, dirty, sunburned, weak but otherwise sound. Her first words: "I want my mama...
...those deaths are needless. Meanwhile, we celebrate Mother's Day. How utterly typical of the worst of adolescent public opinion is that flower of commercialized sentiment. A rather shameful procedure that, a hypocritical gesture typical of a people who believe they can replace a deep obligation by a shallow sentimental flourish...