Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then thrown, without any means of support out into the world to shift for themselves. Quite naturally a great number of young people who were born morons are not fitted for intellectual work with out the necessary training they are unable to do other skilled work, and soon sink to a position in which they can only kep alive by petty larceny...
...Deeping's figures of earth, Furze achieves that balance between rusticity and refinement which is sometimes considered the ideal embodiment of the English character. To Mary it seems that the rusticity outweighs the refinement. Still, she loves him, agrees to marry him. But as they plan for a new sink at Doomsday and a pump to supply water for Mary's dishwashing, she loses heart. In despair she takes a dawn train away from Cinder Town, going to Weyfleet to her sister Clare...
...Brooklyn last week, at midnight, Li Poy, 45, dishwasher, Hip Sing, was stooping over his sink in King's Tea Garden, finishing cleaning the scum from around the rim of the water. Occasionally from the dining-room came the sparkle of white men's women, such as many a wealthy tong leader keeps in his saffron incensed chambers. In and out pattered the waiters. Then a strange Chinaman swung through the door. He fired two shots into Li Poy's bent back. Poy pitched forward and his face sank like a yellow teacup into the brown dishwater...
Tamburlaine the Great. As U. S. citizens sink their every prejudce in praising Lincoln, so Timur is always upon approving lips at Samarkand. The largest slab of jade known to exist is his tombstone (6 ft. x 17 in. x 14 in); and every child of Samarkand has stood in the great vaulted octagonal hall where the green jade tomb reposes, surrounded by six family tombs of white marble...
...founder of the Hospital for Joint Diseases (largest orthopedic hospital in the world); having fallen from a seventh floor window; in Manhattan. In 1911 he successfully grafted the tibia bone from a dead man's leg into a girl's leg. In 1912, he saw the Titanic sink...