Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjectives available to TIME industrious is the most inept in describing Alton Cook, radio editor of the New York World-Telegram. I know because he shared my apartment for many years and he is the laziest man who ever left a bed unmade and dishes in the sink from Friday to Friday, the day of the slavey's weekly visitation...
...Corsair was sitting upstream, on her bottom. Tearing his hair was Imperial Airways Ace Captain Kelly Rogers, first pilot to land in New York harbor at night, who inaugurated the British north Atlantic mail service. Said he afterward: "To lift the Corsair from the water we had to sink huge petrol tanks under the wings and then turn them into lifting camels by emptying them. Where we started, the river was only 50 yards wide and the Corsair spans 38 yards. We took careful soundings, adjusted the load and let her go. When she started lifting, I knew somehow...
...YORK CITY, January 10--A surprising basketball team that refused to be licked before it started came through in the clutches to sink a favored Columbia five here last night, 40 to 35, in a game in which the lead changed hands no less than twelve times, and thus it opened successfully its 1939-40 Eastern Intercollegiate League season...
...School of Business Administration, situated just across the river, was also built on the unstable base and a report of its tendency to sink has been in circulation for several years...
...waded into the river, gasping with every breath, their long wrappers floated about their legs. Brother Jim, mindful of their virtue, would stoop and shove the dry fabric down, holding fast to the lady with one hand, and shove and shove until the robe had become wet enough to sink of its own weight...