Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tycoons of the Honorable East India Co. built some tea warehouses and a squalid village on the muddy banks of the River Hoogly. Thus was founded the City of Calcutta. It was a wise location. The village grew, became "The City of Palaces." Last week engineers began to sink drills and explore the substrata of the Hoogly to a depth of 100 feet. Soon a subway will burrow under, connecting the quarters of Howrah and Sealdah. Proud Indians know that today only two cities in the British Commonwealth have subways: London and Sydney...
...triangle is grafted on Jutland by connecting scenes with British extras made up as sailors but looking more like members of an amateur dramatic club in a benefit performance of Pinafore. Best shot: a British warship taking the sudden, hardly perceptible list which means that she is going to sink...
...shot caused handsome Prince Hsien Kai to sink groaning into a bed of Japanese chrysanthemums. Hotel waitresses shrieked,'but most of the Oriental males present grew warily silent, prudently slipped away. Eventually, however, several wiry little Japanese policemen went up to tackle Ugly Customer Chang...
Pausing a long moment; M. Briand let his words sink in, then cried with redoubled fervor...
...airwise nation which General Mitchell considers important include lack of through transcontinental air lines, lack of transoceanic lines, the vulnerability of warships to planes ("battleships have become so top-heavy and useless that if they get a good crack below the waterline, they just turn over and sink of their own accord"), the excellent air targets which the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga provide, the impossibility of protecting cities from air raids, the poverty of the Army and Navy in fighting planes...