Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Hal Ulen has a knack of sifting talent in unpromising disguises. Before Forbes "Ted" Norris ever stepped into the shallow pool for a splash, Ulen had fashioned a two-year high scorer in '39 and '40 out of Eric Cutler, a victim of polio taking the aquatic form of treatment...
...front lines. . . . We learned about night patrols and fear, and a lot of us learned about prayer. I think that was when I decided on my vocation to the Cistercian life, lying in a shallow foxhole listening to a boy mumble 'O Lord! O Lord' as the shells screamed overhead and exploded. ... I realized my faith wasn't so strong, neither was my confidence nor my love. So I prayed to Our Lady to spare me, and promised her to join the Cistercians to learn to love...
...custom, were at afternoon tea or were just ambling back to their counters. They smelled fire and saw wisps of smoke but, told that firemen were arriving, carried on with their jobs. Then, in a twinkling, the acre-wide building was a pillar of flame. Fire broke from the shallow basement, seared the main floor, exploded upward to the second and third...
Calling himself "skeptical of the Liberal Party, skeptical of the P.C.A., and skeptical of a Wallace Third Party," Lynd doomed all these to failure within the near future because they all "cut too shallow...
Temperate Life. All this was good news for the oil companies. Petroleum is believed to come from the dead bodies of minute animals sinking to the bottom of shallow seas. If the same marine fauna flourished in both the U.S. and South America, there should be good oil prospects in the Amazon Basin as well as in Texas...