Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first 85 miles. At that point the present sounding is 600 ft. Then the river began to cut deeper. Few miles farther on the gorge is 2,400 ft. deep, eight miles wide, and its bottom is 3.000 ft. below present sea level. Greatest depth of the gorge from brink to bottom is 3.600 ft., which beats Colorado's Royal Gorge by 1,000 ft. It becomes shallower near the mouth which is 7,500 ft. under the ocean surface. North of it is another deep groove, 15 miles long, which further soundings may show to be a fork...
Maine went Democratic. So did the nation. Secretary Ickes put Engineer Cooper on a special survey committee. Its report was favorable. Before long Army Engineers found themselves standing on the brink of Cobscook Bay with $10,000,000 of relief cash in prospect and White House orders to start Quoddy Dam. To save international complications the project had been cut in half and confined entirely to U. S. waters. Even so. its estimated cost was $36,000,000. Five dams had to be built between the islands enclosing Cobscook Bay. In places the water was 150 ft. deep...
...Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 21g-mile run between North Platte. Neb. and Cheyenne. Wyo.. one way or the other, six days a week. When passing an oncoming car he sights the road edge over his radiator cap. gets his right-hand tires on the brink of the paving. Three times automobiles or trucks have bumped him. In every case his bus was standing stock-still...
...diggers explored a fort called Cahercommaun, a ruin of massive masonry on the brink of a precipice, built about 900 A. D. Inside this were walled compartments into which livestock could have been driven to safety when marauders approached. In the citadel was a silver and gold brooch, and a skull impaled on an iron hook, as if the head had been on display after being cut off. Another find of this period was a gaming board, with rows of holes to receive pegs, a circle marking the centre hole. A long, quizzical face was carved...
...discard the Versailles treaty in its entirely. Neither of these moves can possibly be countered at the present moment and as one correspondent stated in a despatch, her re-entrance would have the effect of admitting a wolf into a pack of sheep. The League is so near the brink as it is, that to allow Germany to use her chambers as a battle-ground on which to fight for her territorial possessions would be to ring down the curtain on the last remaining organ fighting for world peace. This cannot, and must not be allowed...