Word: winch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow bathyspherist, had better not go deeper (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week not a hunch but lack of cable held him back. Down went the bathysphere, down past all previous records, down to 3,028 ft. At that point only 47 ft. of cable were left on the winch above. The barge cap tain ordered that no more be paid out. The bathysphere was kept at the new record depth for five minutes. "I'll tell the world," said Dr. Beebe, after he crawled out on deck, "that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives...
...Schirmer "37, Milton S. Smith 1G, Harold E. Taber Gr.ES, William P. VanEvern '37, John N. Vincent 1G, Roger J. Voskuyl 1G, Henry S. Wann 37, paul L. Ward 1G, Earle H. Webster '36, Harold P. Welch '36, Roger U. Wellington '37, Karl R. Whitney '35, Paul S. Winch '35, John J. Witherspoon '37, Willard G. Woelper 2L, Donald T. Wood '37, Harrison Wood '36, James A. E. Wood...
...Mississippi, birthplace of the Confederacy and scene of Jefferson Davis's last speech (1884), has a population of 48,282 souls. When members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, began planning their 22nd quadrennial conference, they were invited to think of Mississippi. They chose Jackson, smallest town in winch they had ever met. Last week Jackson's hotels were brimming with Southern Methodists, 708 delegates and alternates, male and female, laymen and churchmen. In best gown, business suit or frock coat they attended a reception at the Governor's mansion, motored about the surrounding countryside, shook hands...
...Mendleson '35 (L) defeated Louis B. Thacher '35 (E) 3-1, Lockwood Merriman '35 (L) defeated Gordon C. Streeter '34 (E) 3-2; Douglas D. Bond '34 (E) defeated Robert T. Brown '36 (L) 3-1; Paul S. Winch '35 (L) defeated Allen M. Ferry '34 (E) 3-1, Chester H. King '35 (E) defeated Richard F. Davis...
Having broken a winch while sounding the Caribbean and adjacent Atlantic, Eldridge Reeves Johnson's yacht Caroline put into San Juan, P. R. last week. Immediately Dr. Paul Bartsch, Smithsonian naturalist, sped ashore to report the discovery of the greatest known crack in earth, a deep of 44,000 ft. (8.33 mi.) just north of Puerto Rico. Also off Puerto Rico is the Nares Deep (27,972 ft., or 5.30 mi.), greatest previously known hole in the Atlantic.* Both deeps lie in a lively seismic zone, indicate how the earth's crust warps and cracks...