Word: plumb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some strange coincidence, however, the chosen day was one which history had marred by tragedy. Exactly two years before, the seventeenth of December, the United States submarine S-4, while conducting a series of marine tests, met with the fatal accident which sent her like a plumb-line to the bottom. Four days later all forty members of a heroic crew were dead...
Last week no officers and men of Company F of the U. S. Eleventh Engineers sailed from Panama for Nicaragua well loaded with tripods, telescopes, plumb lines, and other surveyors' gadgets. By order of Secretary of War James William Good they will map the route along which the U. S. has the right to build an inter-ocean Nicaraguan Canal. The right was bought...
Reporter: "Shoot!" Ambassador Dawes: "Then you go plumb to hell-that's my business...
With shifting standards, with biographies professing to plumb the true nature of certain familiar heroes, there have been few figures left to epitomize the standard virtues. In the intense fervor of the present day writers to make realism vivid in its bloodiest detail, a little old-fashioned evangelism is, strangely enough, valuable if not essential. And if this evangelism can be made free of mysticism and endowed with the sincerity of a commanding personality, it supplies, despite its glamor of notoriety, an anchor-stone to many drifters on the modern sea of social and economic uncertainty...
Governor Henry Simpson Johnston of Oklahoma, who used to lecture on the religious aspects of the Ku Klux Klan, is a profound student of ritualism, spiritualism, occultism, etc. One day he found a Mrs. 0. 0. Hammonds, who could plumb the depths of Rosicrucian* philosophy, with him. Together they plumbed (TIME, March...