Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the much-touted shots of the battle on the sea are not what they might be. Russian ships may sink when hit, but the Japanese ships, where the camera as are set up, only get a little smoky. There is little of the twisted steel and none of the mangled corpses that give the novel its grim horror...
Horton and Jenkins carry off the comedy honors; the Yacht Club Boys, our favorite interpreters of national affairs, are entitled to all the singing prizes, and Cab Calloway makes all the music. There isn't much left for Jolson to do except sink to his knees with a rapt expression. He's the same old Al, and still doesn't mind the gray skys, but we don't like it any better than...
...German people a basis for the charge that it has not been loyal to its treaties? This nation stands true to every treaty that it signed voluntarily and as an equal. . . . I feel that God's grace is once again upon us, and in this hour we sink on our knees and ask the Almighty to give us His blessings and give us strength to stand firm in the struggle for freedom. ... So may God help...
Then come endless ramifications. Other capitalists, laboring under huge taxes, will be quite unable to compete with the tax-free Tammany houses, so their properties will sink in value, to be condemned, appraised, bought, exempted from taxes, with politicians taking cuts...
...have risen from the malodorous sink which is below the lowest caste of India is Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, No. 1 Untouchable. This plump, cheery, bespectacled man of no caste, whose very shadow would outrage high-caste Hindus, managed to get a good education in Indian Government schools, was staked to courses at the University of London and Columbia University by the highly democratic Gaekwar of Baroda. Dr. Ambedkar is probably the only man alive who ever walked out in a huff from a private audience with the Pope of Rome. His Holiness Pius XI having heard from Dr. Ambedkar...