Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Heller can do this because he has a vast knowledge about most businesses, is back-stopped by a staff of experts. Four hundred strong, they breathe gently down a borrower's neck, go over his books thoroughly three or four times a year, shoot out a barrage of advice...
Back from the deepest depths ever reached by man, Jacques Piccard and Lieut. Don Walsh flew into Washington last week to receive decorations from President Eisenhower, and to tell how it felt as the bathyscaph Trieste dropped seven miles down through the Pacific Ocean to the bottom of the Marianas...
The Trieste passed through many thermal layers. When it came to the dense cold layers, it stopped. "We sat on them like going down steps," said Lieut. Walsh. The crew had to release some of the buoyant gasoline in its upper hull before it resumed its dark, downward voyage.
Hairy Feeling. At 30,000 ft. a sharp crack rang through the ship, shaking it violently. The water pressure outside was 6,000 tons per sq. in., and even a slight fracture in the hull would have meant certain death. It proved to be only an outer Plexiglas windowpane which...
Novelist Compton-Burnett reaps her harvest in a one-crop economy: dialogue. In cumulative context, it gradually convicts the reader-and all men-of the vanity that masks motives and the self-love that salves conscience. Despite her melodramatic devices, Author Compton-Burnett is rooted in the long and highly...