Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sink or Swim. His father died after eating tainted Army beef during the Spanish-American War-a tragedy which set off young Fiorello's lifelong rage against profiteering, careless government and exploitation. He attacked the unfriendly world with the dash of a Garibaldi...
...Help at First. Branch Rickey's do's & don'ts strangely enough, did not include any instructions on how to play baseball. Although Jackie had played second base or shortstop all his life, he was handed a first-baseman's mitt and sent out to sink or swim at a new position -first base. Being right-handed was no help: first base is a left-hander's position. It is easier for a left-hander to throw from first to any other base, and easier to pick a man off the bag. Only...
Here in Boston Mather warned that in two or three years this country will sink into economic college unless European depression is avoided. As temporary chairman of the World People's Congress which gathers in New York City on November '29 he will probably introduce this issue with emphasis on soviet-American relations...
Here in Boston Mather warned that in two or three years this country will sink into economic collapse unless European depression is avoided. As temporary chairman of the World People's Congress which gathers in New York City on November 29 he will probably introduce this issue with emphasis on Soviet-American relations...
...steel sphere and its contents will be heavy enough to sink. To keep it from sinking right to the bottom of the sea and staying there, it will be suspended from streamlined aluminum containers filled with aviation gasoline, which is considerably lighter than water and almost incompressible. Fully loaded, the bathyscaphe will weigh about 40 tons. Because the winches of the mother ship cannot support this weight, the gasoline and half the ballast must be added after the bathyscaphe is in the Water...