Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cosmopolitan, particularly a Manhattan, congregation as a clear summons from on high commanding them to go forth to larger things. Sometimes they see in such a call an honest opportunity for doing good on a greater scale; sometimes they go because they regard New York City as a sink of iniquity in whose cleansing their conscience impels them to assist. But recently, when Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk of Baltimore was asked to take charge of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he refused. Such a rejection was obviously "news"; pressmen hurried to interview Dr. Kirk. In reply to their inquiries...
...Significance. This new Cabinet alignment represents a practically complete severance from the Right, and means that Premier Painleve can no longer rely on occasional help from the Bloc National but must sink or swim with the Left. In that quarter he can of course count on Herriot's Radical-Socialists, since a majority of the new Cabinet are of that ilk. But it is considered significant that several Socialists, notably Louis Loucheur, refused portfolios- which leaves their party free to overthrow the new Cabinet at pleasure...
...arrower, indulging in a contest over a set distance, the archer to hit a 12-inch target, the fisherman to drop his bait in the a yard-wide hoop, the baseman to hit a tub as wide as a man's chest, and the golfer to sink is putt. Imagine it, said the The New York Evening World, and forthwith, over the last nine holes of the Belleclaire Country Club, L.I., thet hing came to pass...
...thirty years ago Harvard was the largest university in the country. Today all that is changed. We shall never again have that position. There are two alternatives and two only ahead of us: either we must be the leading intellectual center in the western hemisphere or we must gradually sink back to the position of a glorified New England academy from which we emerged...
...fine August morning in 1925, the Danish Admiralty came to a decision: a keg of indigestible dynamite is to be placed in the cast iron belly of the U20 so that the little weasel of the sea may sink in agony and lie far down in the green waters with the other little devils of the deep. No more need man-made leviathans fear death from its speeding projectiles nor its own broken and scaly body...