Word: hulked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally the barnacle-crusted hulk of the Islander came grudgingly to the surface, and the salvage boats nursed it toward Admiralty Island, 15 mi. from Juneau. Last week the wreck was beached. Frank Curtis and his men crawled inside, pried into every nook & cranny, sifted the cold slime and sludge foot by foot. Not an ounce of gold did they find...
...enjoys night life more than fighting, Baer had trained so nonchalantly that a member of the New York State Boxing Commission threatened to have the fight cancelled because the challenger was in such pooi physical condition. Even after a committee of physicians had examined Baer's 210-lb. hulk, pronounced it hale, it seemed improbable that he would be a match for a champion who weighed 50 Ib. more, and stood 4 in. taller than he. Camera had trained with characteristic solemnity. Six weeks of roadwork, six daily rounds of boxing and a Spartan diet made his muscles swell...
Twelve months ago S. S. Leviathan, only giant express liner flying the U. S. flag, was laid up at a Hoboken, N. J. pier as too unprofitable to operate. While her historic hulk grew dingier against a dingy background, U. S. Lines which bought her from the Shipping Board in 1929 tried to persuade the Government to take her back. Their arguments: 1) There were already more big ships on the North Atlantic run than the traffic warranted; 2) the Leviathan had been losing an average of $75,000 on each round trip before she was decommissioned; 3) this operating...
That lumbering hulk, American justice, which is sometimes fortunate enough to crawl within seven years of its shadow and which has long since all hered in to disgrace abroad is undergoing another bit of humiliation in the courthouse at Dedham these days...
...great ship downward, and this time clawed away a section of her belly fabric and part of her rudder. Again ballast was dumped; but the ship did not rise. Down, down she went-CRASH-upon the surface of the writhing sea. For a brief moment the 110-ton hulk floated while its buoyant helium hissed away into the gale. Then the pounding waves wrenched it to bits. Here and there, by the occasional brilliance of the lightning flashes, a witness could have discerned men of the Akron flailing about in the water...