Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard the O-9 were Lieut. Howard J. Abbott, a line officer who had four years of submarine experience; Ensign Marks P. Wangsness, a 27-year-old reservist; and 31 crewmen, some of whom were youngsters just recruited. Seaman Charles L. Eagleton, 24, after a test dive in shallow water, had recently written his father: "Everything went wrong, but we've got it under control now." Seaman Francis Golden had told his father that the O-9 had sprung 19 leaks, that "water poured into her right away" on her first runs. Seaman Nathan Gersen had told his family...
...Front. A bag of rice-one of many -was loaded one night last week on a drab, shallow-draft river steamer on the Yangtze River at Chungking. The boat cast off its moorings and rushed downstream on the treacherous current. About 250 miles downstream the terrain suddenly seemed to explode: the river became a narrow torrent, the hills convulsed into forbidding mountains...
Robert F. Kemper's "thousands of fellows like me" strikes me as very shallow thinking. A lot of fellows like him offering to work for nothing, or taking sides favoring the owners of concentrated wealth, who unlawfully refuse to bargain collectively as against the real workers who earn their bread by the sweat of their honest toil did not and never will break any depression or save our democratic country from Nazi control at home by concentrated wealth...
That the bridges over the Meuse were left standing was denied by Army men, They claimed instead that German columns had found some shallow fords in the river, had driven scores of obsolete tanks, useless for combat, into the water, and sent their big 30-ton monsters crunching over these improvised bridges. But in the magnitude of France's fall their words went unheeded...
...Howell's prudery. He feels that the preponderant portion of our contemporary literature is written by adolescent minds, by men such as Hemingway, Wolfe, and Meucken. These writers, he asserts, feel that their most important duty is to "face life," but in so doing they have become "emotionally shallow...