Word: sinkers
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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...
...mysterious nature of the substances. The belief in the supernatural is even now highly prevalent and other things being even, appeals to that belief usually bring results. The peculiar, mysterious properties of the vitamines has popularized them and they have been swallowed hook, line, bob, and sinker by the public...