Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aroused from sleep, the villagers of Ver-sur-Mer aided in dragging the America into shallow water, bringing ashore the three Wright Whirlwind engines which had not once whimpered during the flight. Although the distance between Roosevelt Field, L. I., and Ver-sur-Mer on the coast of Normandy is 3,477 miles, yet Commander Byrd estimated that the America flew some 4,200 miles during its 42 hours' journey...
Externally the Museum building is of red brick. The facade, which fronts on Quincy Street, and which has been called "Twentieth Century Cambridge" in style, is a modern adaptation of the best in Georgian architecture. Viewing it from the shallow quadrangle formed by Emerson, Sever, and Robinson Halls, one is impressed not so much by its magnitude and line as by the open expanse of skylight and the suggestion of a bright, shadowless interior...
...they sailed?and behind their backs, in the U. S., flippant, shallow-minded cynics and "sophisticates" snickered at them privately and in smart-charts, or wriggled in cheap self-consciousness to think that these, the butts of so much "horse-laughter" at home, should "parade American crassness before the eyes of Europe...
...wall of the amphitheatre is low enough to let the beholder see over it into the still-smoking battlefields, seen as from a high hill in geographically exact detail. Within the wall, which is divided into panels by inscribed monuments, stand leading representatives of the Allied Nations, grouped on shallow steps, with each nation's name engraved on a smooth tablet...
...coach, James Wray, pre-war Harvard mentor, the Big Red crew situation is looking up, and visions are seen to a return of the glory of Cornell crews in the days on Courtney. On Saturday, Cornell trailed Princeton and Yale in the Tigers' amazing victory on still, shallow Lake Carnegie, but the Ithacans were only a length and a half behind and the second boat, though beaten by Yale, led the Princeton "jayvees...