Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even believe that in the course of countless ages the two human eyes will come closer and closer together, the bridge of the nose will further diminish and sink (just as the animal snout, ' man's line of descent, has been doing for aeons of time) and finally that man's two eyes will again become one-just one large, central, cyclopean eye. It is likely that the merely servient (left) eye will shrink away (as the pineal eye has already done) so that the right eye will become the cyclopean. Certain it is that the left...
...buta kidnapped a delegation of reformers investigating the slave trade. Maurice went back to England with the credit and Bill's girl, leaving Mandoa to relapse into the waiting hands of old Ma'buta. Bill and San Talal, no longer in power, watched their little beginnings sink into ruin, hopefully expected the day when they could start building them up again...
...where a native newspaper was suppressed for ten days for suggesting that Feisal committed suicide. A hundred thousand Arabs attended the royal obsequies. The crowd was so dense and so excited that police barred the palace gates against them, severed a bridge of boats across the Tigris lest it sink with the funeral procession under the weight of the multitude. King Feisal was entombed near the Parliament Building with a 99-gun salute...
...Like all landplanes, autogiros sink in water. Excepting the case of an experimental craft in France last year, 'giro-builders can still claim that no occupant has been killed by a 'giro crash...
Three weeks ago Chicago's Board of Trade, instigated by Washington, set a temporary level below which grain future prices would not be allowed to sink. Last week that artificial floor was removed. Prices-which had been bobbing along on the rule like balloons without lifting power-promptly dropped the maximum amounts permitted in one day's trading. Great was the hullabaloo. Representative Jones of Texas and Senator Smith of South Carolina promptly swung inflationist thunderbolts about their heads again. Letters and telegrams poured into Washington demanding that the Government repeg prices. No such action was taken. Next...