Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Optimistic View. Two days later, Socony-Vacuum's Vice President J. C. Case took a different view of the basin at Socony's annual meeting. Said he: Socony is finding good oil at depths as shallow as 3,000 ft. and will drill eight to ten wells there this year. Result: Northern Pacific shot up nearly five points, and the whole market rose. Other oilmen explained the seeming contradiction in Williston estimates: Texaco's holdings are near the center of the basin, where the oil is more than 9,000 ft. down, whereas others...
...course, it's not particularly cultural. The emphasis is on one and two man tap dances and patter songs, and visual rather than spoken humor. Its big ballet number is a shallow affair, not particularly symbolic of anything at all, but thanks to Cyd Charisse and her long legs, it is indeed entertaining...
...Sheen's words, the meaning of Easter in mid-20th century should be particularly significant. For modern man seems to live in a Good Friday age. Sheen believes that man, his faith in God shaken, has retreated within his own self, but has found there no peace, only shallow and temporary comforts. Disillusioned by a welter of scientific and political cure-alls, he looks for resurrection, but too often he wants it without sacrifice and before death -"promises of salvation without a cross, abandonment without sacrifices, Christ without His nails." Adds Sheen: "There is no pleasure without pain...
...towns). Kerosene Hill is a jungle of rickety shacks made of packing-case slats, flattened tin cans and odds & ends of junk. Like most other favelas, it has no piped water supply; favelados lug pump water up the hill by the bucketful. A hair-curling stench rises from the shallow ditches that serve the settlement as sewers. "We have a great time watching these human anthills," said an apartment dweller recently, "but they watch us too. Sometimes we wonder what they're thinking." In his voice was an undertone of fear...
...fugitive: yet how sweet it was when the fingertips were young and the touched breast, too, was young." But the girl is English and wealthy as well, and before the two fall fairly in love, her father's gamekeeper trounces Ches and Finn for gaffing salmon in a shallow stream on the family estate...