Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other features of the game were Pittsburg's inability to sink short shots, and the Harvard quintet's failure to score many potential points because of unnecessary delaying in enemy territory. In the last minute and a half of play in a desperate rally, the Crimson score was augmented by three field goals bringing it within three points of Pittsburgh...
...ironically and sets the portent down as Death Valley's crowning treachery, the mirage. And yet, last week, there was a lake in California's subsea level inferno. One Perry Brite, Kerr County supervisor, stood on Dante's Lookout and saw that 50 miles of the sink had become covered with water. In the memory of none of the inhabitants of the Valley region had so much rain fallen or so much seepage accumulated from distant snows. When the waters disappear the length and breadth of that blistering desert will be a wilderness of wildflowers, bluebells, poppies...
From a questionnaire submitted by the Children's Aid Society to 7,000 Manhattan urchins aged 7 to 21 it was learned that less than 20% had ever heard of Horatio Alger (Sink or Swim, Do and Dare, Frank and Fearless, From Canal Boy to President, Wait and Hope, Work and Win), whose centenary occurred last month. Only 14% had ever read one of his books, none owned a copy. The familiar Alger doctrine of ultimate riches for the honest, industrious, poor boy was accepted by youngsters between 7 and 1 1 . On their own experience older moppets vigorously...
This delightful sink...
...carrying the weak ones, thus freeing their liquid assets for more constructive purposes. The one great danger cited is that R. F. C. may so load itself up with all the frozen securities now clogging the banks that it will itself go into a frigid state and sink out of helpfulness...