Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Measuring deep ocean currents was almost impossible until Britain's Dr. John Crossley Swallow developed a "float" (it sinks). Made of strong aluminum tubing closed at the ends, it is carefully weighted so that it barely sinks in sea water. As the depth increases, pressure makes the water heavier. The aluminum tubes resist the pressure better than the water does, so eventually the float stops sinking. It will hang at any desired level while a battery-powered transmitter sends ultrasonic beeps that carry for miles...
...Swallow released successive floats from the Discovery II. Each sank to a predetermined depth and sent back ultrasonic beeps that allowed them to be followed by submarine-detecting apparatus. When set to sink only a few thousand feet, the floats drifted north with the Gulf Stream, but between 4,500 and 6,000 ft. their motion practically stopped. Deeper down they drifted southward, at as much as one-third mile per hour. With the counter Gulf Stream proved to be real, the oceanographers can apply their theories with stepped-up confidence to other parts of the ocean depths...
Unfortunately, she is not referring to the plot, which continues. Actress Parker goes to a convent, where she acquires Wisdom: "One cannot find peace in the world or in a convent, but only in oneself." Rather than swallow such bromides, the husband dies of cholera, and, as the widow sails away into the sunset, she remarks: "I'm beginning to like myself." It is hard...
...recorded conversation of Miller's children ("You were a thief, weren't you, Dad?" "Well, yes and no. I was a horse thief"). And it should be recorded that the old scourge of the Left Bank weeps when he misses his children and hides marbles lest they swallow them...
Henry the Heretic. What Miller expects his adult readers to swallow could choke a racing camel. Still, the book is a document as well as a preposterous anecdote because it gives a picture (sometimes unconscious) of a recurrent American phenomenon-the Utopian colony. Those at Harmony, Pa. or Oneida, N.Y. were founded by followers of deviate religious sects. These new California sectaries around Miller are no exception. Miller, who rivals Dr. Norman Vincent Peale for thin theology, is preaching a doctrine known along Madison Avenue as togetherness. "The ideal community, in a sense, would be the loose, fluid aggregation...