Word: iceberg
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...flawlessly preserved as those in the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Five cases of wine with corks seemingly intact. Delicate china plates, wash basins and chamber pots, pristine and unchipped. Plump and elegant luggage that could have been packed yesterday. Seventy-three years after the "unsinkable" Titanic plowed into an iceberg and slowly slipped beneath the waves, the luxury liner has at last been found sitting nearly upright on the frigid Atlantic floor, 500 miles south of Newfoundland and more than 13,000 ft. below sea level. At that depth, the great ship and its trove of Edwardian-era relics have...
...massive profile. Each image proved more remarkable than the previous one. A small flagpole stretched forlornly from the tip of the bow. Lifeboat bays yawned, empty. Much of the Titanic was in "pristine" condition, but portions of the hull seemed to show the lethal gash inflicted by the iceberg, and the stern of the ship had been wrested from the main body. No human remains were seen. In one alarming incident, Argo scraped against a Titanic smokestack, but the sub emerged intact. At week's end the crew packed up and headed for shore...
...first-class smoking room, where a group of young men were playing a last few rounds of cards, the grinding sound disturbed the game. Several of the players wandered out into the freezing night to take a look. "We hit an iceberg--there it is," somebody said. As the players looked toward the rear, they could see a dark mountain of ice receding into the distance. They went back to their game, and the ship sailed majestically...
...enrollment at the school has dropped 60 percent during the last decade, why graduate students perennially complain that Harvard doesn't have enough teaching fellowships or housing for them, and why the GSAS needs more money--and lots of it. These problems are just the tip of the GSAS iceberg...
...enrollment in the school has dropped 60 percent during the last decade, why graduate students perennially complain that Harvard doesn't have enough teaching fellowships or housing for them, and why the GSAS needs more money--and lots of it. These problems are just the tip of the GSAS iceberg...