Word: deeper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poking Harvard in the ribs has always been a source of primitive pleasure to many American writers who never came within smelling distance of the Charles. But in this case the journalistic sneerers have poked deeper than the ribs. They have suggested that Harvard and much of the country no longer know how to use the English language...
...jeep trailed behind the general's as we ground in low gear across the rough ground toward a village headquarters less than three miles from the front. Jeep lights flicked on and off as the drivers tried to avoid the deeper holes. An elliptical orange moon popped over the horizon. As we neared the village we passed an artillery position. The dark forms of tanks loomed up against the sky. A 105-mm. gun directly in front suddenly cut loose, its red flash silhouetting for an instant the crouched figures of the gun crew. A pungent smell of gunpowder...
...speaks varsity coach John chase in characterizing Crimson prospects for the winter's hockey season. "We're deeper and faster than we've been in years," says Chase, "but just as strong are BU, BC, Northeastern, Dartmouth, and Brown, to mention only a few. I wouldn't want to pick winners in any of those games...
...replied, "I feel the same way -in fact, I feel like doing it right now." Thorez, still beaming, jingling loose change in his pants pocket, was surrounded by a group of newsmen. "Truman's idea of sending Vinson to Moscow was very smart," he said. "It made a deeper impression on the American people than the political experts thought." 'Everyone laughed and smoked; the room was warm...
Patriotic Savagery. As the century advanced, the bloods took on a deeper sheen of respectability. Savagery was given a patriotic purpose, and the pirate's victim rose out of the scuppers to become the pirate's relentless pursuer. Aimed now directly at the juvenile market, boys' magazines arose for every class, their authors ranging from Talbot Baines Reed, G. A. Henty and P. G. Wodehouse to a lesser-known host of "clergymen, headmasters, baronets, officers . . . titled ladies...