Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal side, Greville's diary is interesting chiefly for the light it throws on his curious motive for writing it. Despite His aristocratic connections,his wealth, his membership in the Privy Council, his welcome to the most exclusive social, political and intellectual circles, Greville believed himself shallow-minded, frivolous, dissipated. His sober diary was a means to improve his mind, a penance for his sins...
...Shallow '40, hurled the 35 1b, weight 48 feet 3 and one-quarter inches to win that event for the Crimson. Gale of the black and red followed close with 47 feet 4 and one-quarter inches. Wiren putted the 16 1b. shot 41 feet 5 and one-half inches to better the mark of 39 feet 8 and one-half inches made by Art Mason '42, and take that event for Northeastern...
...shallow rivers of Britain's twelve-by-42-mile Caribbean paradise swelled over their banks, and many of St. Lucia's native blacks hastily abandoned their plantation huts, moved their wives & children up the sides of the valleys to what they thought was safety. No sooner had they escaped the floods than worse disaster loomed. In the hills the soaked ground gave way here & there, slipped with a roar into the valleys. Panic-stricken natives now hunted for slopes that would not slide. The alarmed British administration at Castries, the island's seat, conscripted gangs of banana...
...Upper Mississippi, the Suwannee have been covered. One of the most promising publisher's projects of the decade. Rivers of America is conceived as "a literary and not an historical series." Unfortunately it is distinguished neither as literature nor as history. The worst features of regional writing-shallow local color and uncritical acceptance of apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers. As an example of such journalism, Powder River is no worse than its predecessors, except that Struthers Burt, 56-year-old Philadelphian, best-selling novelist...
Returning in the high-jump are Robert Haydock, Jr. '39, track captain, Irving S. Michelman '39, and Guilliaem Aertsen, 3d. '40; pole-vault, Frederick M. McIsaac '40; shot-put, Howard P. Mendel '40; and George A. Downing '40; javelin, Fulton L. Cahners '39; hammer, William J. Shallow '40. There are no lettermen in the sprints or half-mile...