Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author Erskine's dialog which can be so easily minimized by an understanding of his easy tricks remain as insidious as ever; and now as he points out once more the original sophistication of woman and the enduring naiveté of the male, he can be called shallow or specious, but he cannot be called dull...
Alkaline Cell. Lighter, but giving less than one and a half volts, is the alkaline cell which Thomas Alva Edison perfected. This contains a caustic potash solution; thin sheets of nickelplated steel contain shallow pockets. Pockets of the positive plate are filled with nickel peroxide mixed with a finely flaked metallic conductor. In pockets of the negative plate finely divided iron is mixed with the same metallic conductor. (Originally, in both plates, the conductor was graphite...
Last week just such a happening took place in the Sequatchie Valley, Tenn. Pickett's Lake, near Whitwell, famed for its trout, was emptied overnight. Natives found scores of trout, from a pound to five pounds, skittering, burrowing, gasping in shallow puddles in the mud basin. Smaller fish seemed to have escaped by routes which, when geologists found them, showed that the sudden drainage was no miracle. Two crevices in the lake bottom had. opened, presumably by earth contraction during a local drought, emptying Pickett's Lake into the Sequatchie River, a mile away...
...Petra, abandoned stone city of northern Arabia, a Bedouin started great excitement by happening to poke a certain boulder in a certain way and, later, telling what he had seen. The boulder had tilted, dropping him into a shallow vault, then crashed shut. Feeling his way through Stygian passages for perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba...
Marshal Joffre, to many smart, shallow people is "just a fat man who was lucky. But solid citizens still believe in him. They showed their faith when the franc was tottering (TIME, May, 3, 1926) by subscribing 19,000,000 francs to the Joffre Save the Franc Fund. Last week the final scene in that impressive drama was acted at Paris...