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These are some of the reasons why most religious novels are dull or mawkish. The author's embarrassment shows up in the way he fidgets about in the shallow end of his narrative pool, or the wild high-dives he takes into the deep. Sometimes he tries to avoid these extremes by holding on to the guardrail and pulling himself around the edges, often out of his depth, but never going under...
...Carrie, Jennifer Jones seems to have stepped right out of the pages of the book: she is shallow and pleasure-loving, but cleverer and more imaginative than either of her lovers, both of whom she outgrows. In his first Hollywood movie since That Hamilton Woman (1941), Laurence Olivier is a bit too elegant as Restaurantman Hurstwood, but he plays a tricky role with grace and restrained passion. In lesser parts, Eddie Albert is often overly bumpkinish as the traveling salesman, but Miriam Hopkins is a convincingly shrewish Mrs. Hurstwood...
...full five hours passed before it got light enough for Mrs. Munsell to see that the water was shallow enough to wade. She kicked and shoved one of the doors open about 18 inches, and squeezed through. Then she reached in, pulled Roberta out. carried her through waist-deep water to the river bank, 15 feet away, and started walking. At 5:50, dripping wet and covered with mud, she reached Farmer Reuben Schupbach's dooryard. The farmer drove her to Hardtner at top speed, but Mrs. Munsell was too near her time for doctors to get her ready...
Denver's own Denver-Julesburg basin, where oil is found at such relatively shallow depths (3,000 -6,500 ft.), is a driller's paradise. Sterling, Col., where British-American oil brought in the discovery well two years ago, has since jumped in population from 7,470 to more than 10,000, and 160 more producing wells have been brought...
Optimistic View. Two days later, Socony-Vacuum's Vice President J. C. Case took a different view of the basin at Socony's annual meeting. Said he: Socony is finding good oil at depths as shallow as 3,000 ft. and will drill eight to ten wells there this year. Result: Northern Pacific shot up nearly five points, and the whole market rose. Other oilmen explained the seeming contradiction in Williston estimates: Texaco's holdings are near the center of the basin, where the oil is more than 9,000 ft. down, whereas others...