Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 95 feet it careened along, the right wheels at times three feet lower than the left. Then it struck a young pear tree, swerved at right angles. The Queen and the chauffeur were thrown clear. The car rolled down the bank, caromed off another tree and into the shallow water of the lake...
...concert given last week in Deep River, Conn. was an earnest lady in a brown evening dress named Lotta Van Buren. She delivered explanatory remarks. She plucked twangy notes with a crow's quill on a monochord. She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings. Standing up, she tinkled on an octavina. Sitting down, she bowed away on a viol, played a virginal. She blew into a black wind instrument called a recorder. Lotta Van Buren had so performed twice a week since July, would continue through September. She organized the Deep...
Alaskan sourdoughs scoffed at the whole scheme, pointed to the intense cold, the shallow soil, the short growing season, the hordes of mosquitoes. But Anthony J. Dimond, Alaskan Delegate to the U. S. House, declared: "There is only one possible danger of failure and that lies in the temper of the people...
...Japanese citizens, however, do not like Formosa, and only enough Japanese live there to take out the oil, timber and camphor. Last week, far beneath the earth's surface, some internal ailment seeking relief exploded a volcano in Japan, shook Alaska, rumbled down the Chinese coast, crossed the shallow Formosan Strait and rocked Formosa with the Far East's worst earthquake since...
...four-room unit on display cost $3,800 complete, including erection within 100 miles of New York. Shipped by truck from the company's distributing depot, the parts are put together in two weeks under the expert eye of a company superintendent. A local building crew sinks a shallow concrete foundation (there is no cellar), erects a steel frame. Then the walls, consisting of 4-ft.-by-10-ft. panels, are bolted together with long strips of aluminum which give a modernistic effect to the exterior. The panels, 2¼in. thick, consist of two layers of mixed cement...