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Word: fathomless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany at the request of the State Department, the U. S. Secret Service intercepted a German cable addressed to him which read: "YOU MAY MARRY TIRPITZ." Puzzled, U. S. cryptographic experts toiled over these four words, failed to extract a meaning from what they took to be a fathomless code, at length goaded almost to distraction cautiously persisted in holding up the cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Is Boy-Ed Coming? | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...theatre; one of the few supreme personalities of entertainment had fulfilled her promise, and Meller, who carries eight golden bracelets as mementos of her great successes, was fully entitled to purchase a ninth golden bangle. Yet the barrier of language and the unfamiliarity of a charm that has fathomless depths but no tumult had obtruded themselves. The audience had been appreciative, engrossed, deeply stirred; but they did not drag her coach home to the hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Sorceress Meller | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...would make it now, right enough. Gad, he was only a half-mile from shore. But the swimmer turned upon his encouragers eyes darkened and guttering. He was a lost man now, though they did not know it; he was drowned head and heel in black water, the fathomless seas of fatigue. The tide set its knee in his chest and pushed him back toward France. Once he was only 600 yards from shore; but then for 30 yards he was borne back, unable to move his arms. Abruptly, with a tremendous agony of the will, he rallied; a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Channel Swimmers | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

Assymetrical Forms Ascending, Triangular Etude, Structures, Fairy Tale of the Orient, Projected Four-Dimensional Stage Settings for a Fantastic Play. Such were the compositions of Mr. Wilfred. On the screen, like dyes filtered through fathomless deep-sea canisters, colors fainted, burned, swelled, darkened, dwindled, incredibly clear; patterns crossed, shapes passed, cubes collided, vortices spun down through hell, sucking the sight with them, and the earth, like a small ball knitted by music out of cloud and fire, whirled voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Clavilux | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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