Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accident to the 150-pound shell happened near the Brighton Bridge. There was a considerable amount of ice floating in the river, and the 150 pound crew rowed into a large cake that was half submerged. The shell, with a large hole in it did not sink immediately, and the oarsmen were able to get out without being forced to swim. The shell was towed back to the boathouse by one of the launches...
...formed. He remarked the presence of much gypsum and calcite in the region, two minerals soluble in water. He pointed out that there must be a sheet of subterranean water in the locality since wells have to go down only 10 to 40 feet. Finally, he pounced upon a sink hole they showed him only a few hundred feet from the white cow's sulphurous swimming hole. This hole was only just big enough to admit the body of a cow, but a local ranchman had lately dropped a small herd of dead cattle into...
...young men were so jubilant in their cheap Boston lodging house that their landlady threatened to oust them. For money to install his new invention and to give it proper publicity Bell was obliged to go lecturing. In Manhattan he got Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne L. Roosevelt to sink $18,000 there. The Western Union fought them, blocked them from going into hotels and railroad stations, where quick communication has always been wanted, profitable. (This early hostility has long given way to present comity.) The telegraph company got Thomas A. Edison to work out a rival means of telephoning...
...Consul's office is a man of suavity and tact. He showed his plump questioner a portrait of President Lincoln, a tall, full length portrait. He hoped it would sink...
...play, Yale sent five men down the ice and the Crimson net guardian was subjected to a shower of shots from all angles. With the timekeeper's eyes glued on his watch, Pratt picked off one of the Eli rebounds and skated the length of the rink to sink Harvard's second tally, 40 seconds before the official end of the hockey season. The summary follows: HARVARD YALE Gross, Harding l.w. r.w. Frey Chase, Scott, c. c. Ferguson, Vaughn Hamlen, Zarakov r.w. l.w. Cottle Pratt l.d. r.d. Potts, Cottle Ellison, Clark, Coady r.d. l.d. Noble Cumings g. g. Ives...