Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...babies are tough, 2) superficial signs of death do not always mean what they say. If all fathers were as quick-witted as Charles Didier and rushed their "smothered" babies to a physician, the rate of infant mortality would be lower. A baby's heart beat is so shallow, so rapid, that often only an expert with a stethoscope can detect it. And in the case of shock, the beat is intermittent, almost inaudible. Even blueness is not so much a sign of approaching death as a warning of oxygen deficiency...
...claimed title to 30% of the gold bar (Billiton Co. and The Netherlands Government will divide the rest) but who remembered that gold bars had been brought up from the Lutine before. Let a strong wind come up before the Karimata finishes work, and in the shallow waters of the North Sea even the world's largest dredger will scramble like a crab for cover...
...Digging a water well in Motembo for his master, he presumably stopped for a smoke, at any rate was blown to bits. Promptly forming a company, his master drilled three 900-foot holes on the site, brought in Cuba's first gushers, each producing distillate. Geologists thought this shallow production came from a deeper and much larger reservoir, but drilling equipment was inadequate and nothing further was done about...
Only present production in Cuba is from small shallow wells at Bacuranao, Guanabacoa and Corralillo. Last year total Cuban output of crude...
Fish were plentiful-so numerous that he soon laid aside his heavy rod and returned to the shallow waters close ashore in quest of little fish. These ran in unusually large schools and were of many kinds. He used a light rod usually reserved for trout fishing...