Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...involved in recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally rests on the bottom of the lake, with the gunwales still above water and all passengers high and dry. The lifeboat, however...
...green, the match was still all even. On the first extra hole, the titans, each of whom had played the 36 holes in 10 under par, plopped their balls onto the green in 2. Picard was seven feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, watched it sink out of sight. Nelson was five feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, but it did not sink out of sight. By a quarter-of-an-inch margin, Henry Picard earned $1,100 and became the leading money-winning pro of the year (with...
...Just as long as [the Middlers] do not rebel," cried Professor Pitkin, "they will be trimmed, sucked dry and then thrown away. They will sink into the ranks of the poor, and America will end as ancient Rome ended...
...sink? Oliver Naquin as well as the board tried to get at the answer as fast and finally as possible. By Navy practice, he was recorded as the defendant. This technical procedure was very real to him, for any evidence or finding that misconduct or negligence had sunk the Squalus would sink...
...weight of testimony against the air valve and signal mechanisms. The Squalus board, of course, had no word to say about the British Thetis and French Phenix, whose loss naval officers attribute to the accepted fact that submarines are innately dangerous craft, which by the laws of probability should sink more often than they...