Word: shallowing
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...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
Like Edward H. Faulkner (Plowman's Folly, TIME," July 26, 1943), Dr. Hardy has found that farmers who use the old moldboard plow spend 33%-50% more than those using the shallow-plowing one-way disc. With the disc a farmer can cover double the acreage plowed in the same time. Nearly all of the farmers are now using discs. To avoid pulverizing the soil and laying the prairies open to soil drifting, they should not be pulled faster than 5½ miles an hour...
...regrets. A selfish mediocrity whose family pampered him and thought him great, Professor Serebryakou is peevish now for having got nowhere, for having got old. Middleaged, rust-covered Vanya -who has sacrificed his life to the professor and declared too late his love for the professor's shallow, pretty wife-wallows in self-pity, and when finally roused to rage takes potshots at the professor-and misses...
Actor Olivier's Hotspur was no ranting hothead, but a feudal lord with tremendous dash-gay, sarcastic, masterful. (In Part II Actor Olivier turned up delightfully as that "forked radish," gaunt, garrulous Justice Shallow...
...cycle. That cycle has been rolling along as steady as moonrise since 1832-and probably well before that. When the eruption comes, says Dr. Jaggar, there is a good chance that a stream of smoking lava will writhe slowly down the north side of the mountain and fill the shallow harbor of Hilo, 23 miles away. If that should happen, the island of Hawaii, southernmost and largest of the Hawaiian group, would lose its last good port...