Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonds who, like Mr. Young's creditors, will doubtless prove "very hard-hearted." The fact that German 5½ have markedly declined (see p. 19) means merely that .there is some uneasiness lest Germany thumb her nose at the hard-hearted ones, repudiate even her business obligations, and sink to the credit-ruined status of China or of a business man who said in dead earnest to his creditors: "I will not pay my debts...
...when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans judged that enough of the Commonwealth's money had been blown away, sent a motor launch bobbing over the waves to sink the Torrens with a prosaic charge of good, reliable dynamite...
...cove 40 miles from Godthaab, their destination, they thought their troubles were over; but that night a storm hit them, shifted their moorings, pounded the Direction against the rocks (TIME, July 29, 1929). They got ashore without trouble, saved some of their belongings, with mixed feelings watched the Direction sink. Next day Kent set out overland to find help. An Eskimo guided him to Narsak, where a friendly Dane received him hospitably in terrible English, and sent for the Governor. Allen and "Cupid" returned to the U.S., Kent stayed on, painted pictures (some of them on bed-sheets), made friends...
Ordinarily such a report would have been issued in advance, allowed to "sink in," but there was a reason last week for Lord Passfield's abrupt action...
What will become of the undergraduate clubs? The older ones which sink their roots into the social loam and financial subsoil of the surrounding community, academic Cantabrigian and urbane Bostonese, will no doubt go on much as usual, at least for the present...