Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...navigability, while multi-shaded, defines a navigable river in law as one which is navigable in fact.) The New had not been used for water commerce since the '90's; a great part of it was as unnavigable as a river can be: rocky, swift, extremely shallow...
...horsemen spurted from the brush. In the scout cars, above the pattering exhausts, the men heard the crying breath of horses on the run. Mounted riflemen, machine-gun squads, four horse-drawn howitzers overtook, enveloped, rushed past the cars at 20 m.p.h. The horsemen vanished ahead into a shallow arroyo, arched over the far side, rode on. The artillerymen pulled up, dismounted, within a few minutes had their horses hidden, their guns barking blanks...
Under the shallow camouflage of national defense, fascism now comes to Morningside Heights. Not the open brutal kind made famous by Adolf Hitler, but fascism nonetheless. Herr Hitler says that those who do not conduct themselves for the advancement of National Socialism will be exterminate. Dr. Butler phrases it somewhat more subtly (perhaps that is the advantage of a college education): "Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the University's freedom to go its way towards its lofty aim should . . . withdraw...
Once a week, as a respite from soap operas, NBC offers U. S. womankind a program known as Luncheon at the Waldorf. Broadcast from the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the show is aimed at matrons with better-than-average bankrolls, is as sedulously shallow as a column by Lucius Beebe. Clearly responsible for the tenor of the Luncheon is Actress Ilka Chase, who not only serves as aerial hostess but writes the scripts as well. Last week before a free-feeding audience of 50, Luncheon at the Waldorf was fluttering smartly through its third 13-week...
...companies farming the Bay. Biggest of those is Bluepoints Co., Inc., which has six plants, 35,000 acres of beds, and harvests 5% of the U. S. oyster crop. Bluepoints Co. transplants its oysters from four to six times during their lives: two to three years in warm, shallow water inshore; a year in the fattening grounds; a year or so in the maturing grounds before the final move to marketing beds near the plants...