Word: sinker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...normal senses would go down hook, line, and sinker on Harvard or Yale to win the November 23 classic. Too many things can happen before then. Head Coach Horween of Harvard has a job on his hands to lay his plans for a successful assault against Holy Cross next Saturday, without jeopardizing the prospects against Yale, but Harvard has been through four hard-fought games on the last four Saturdays and there is less of a mental strain this week for the Crimson than there is for Yale in pointing for its traditional clash with Princeton. One reason for this...
Many is the angler who, having lashed a lake vainly with fly or plug, or plumbed it for empty hours with hook and sinker, has wished that the waters might suddenly be rent or snatched away by some miracle, exposing the bottom and, on it, all the flopping creatures whose presence has not been betrayed by appetite...
...Last week the German admiralty announced having touched a spot lower in the world than any spot recorded?a spot 34,416 feet below sea level. With line and sinker, the cruiser Emden had found it, in the so-called "Japanese Ditch," running from Japan down to the Philippine Islands. The greatest ocean depth previously known was 32,644 feet, off the east coasts of Japan...
Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane has no time to read all the despatches carefully. He swallowed Mr. Rogers' misquotation hook, line and sinker, as did many another. Soon Hearst Editor Brisbane wrote...
...mile of steel cable sagging between them along the ocean floor, last week had a bite. The cable tightened, went taut, snapped. Whatever it had snared was ponderous. Repaired, the cable caught again and soon Diver Fred Neilson of Brooklyn clamped on his helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years ago in collision. She was lying on her starboard side, he said, still well preserved; he had been...