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Millions of words have been written about the flood; most of them endlessly reiterating news of thousands homeless, of counties and parishes inundated, left readers with a deep but vague impression of the great disaster. Had a reporter explored the flood area with an eye to specific highlights, notes for his story might have read somewhat as follows...
...Poydras, La., one Ted Herbert, deep sea diver, dived into the Mississippi, set off more dynamite at the Poydras Cut. The current pulled his diver's helmet over his head, almost drowned him. Diving a second time he discarded the helmet, and, as he had no other diving equipment dived naked like a South Sea Islander. Superstitious, Diver Herbert said that if he let his picture be taken, certain death would follow...
...Pineville, La., waters lapped toward the grammar school. Elmo Rich, 11, waded in them, stepped into a deep hole, drowned...
...gather from the report of the Hockey games between the Boston Bruins and the Ottawa Senators, in your SPORTS column, TIME, April 25, that sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck and that the games were marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. If I have misread your article, please inform...
...deepest mines in the world are in Brazil, South Africa, South India, and Yorkshire, England. The deepest, a gold mine named "Village Deep", and situated in South Africa, in the Penne District, is 7032 feet below the level of the ground. This and many others will be visited by Professor Graton during his year of sojourn. He will visit every mine in the world that is over one mile deep...