Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body over her shoulder and strode toward the heart of the swamp?"tearing a way through the matted growth with her right hand while she steadied the body with her left. But this position caused her to advance with lowered head, and eyes fixed on the pools of shallow water through which she waded. At first this pleased her, for the little mirrors flung back pictures of sky seen through swaying cypresses, with small white clouds tangled in their branches. But presently she became aware of the reflection of an object that projected over her shoulder and looked down into...
...Penney home is a spacious Italian Renaissance villa of white limestone with a low roof of apricot-colored tiles. It overlooks Biscayne Bay, is set in the midst of tropical greenery cut by serpentine driveways. On the estate is a shallow goldfish pool bright with water blossoms, a mosaic tiled swimming pool, a putting green and an observatory with a little cupola like those of Mohammedan minarets...
Ecuador. The gunboat Cleveland had steamed down from Panama to convey the travellers up the shallow estuary to Guayaquil, 40 miles inland. Soon after Saturday's sunup the trip began. Ecuador's cruiser, the Cotopaxi, came proudly downstream to Puna Island with a welcoming committee...
...Shallow the cut in the earth; deep the cut in Pittsburgh history. For as the silver spade, dirtied, was carried away, one or another of the watchers recalled these names...
Last week the monolith was being let down the mountain, inch by inch, with nervous precaution, lest a jolt or jar should crack the flawless stone. Pessimists predicted that any ship bearing it would be weighted down so much as to stick in the shallow Tiber. But optimists assumed that "Benito will find...