Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many archer-readers of TIME must have been disappointed by TIME'S failing to report on the fiftieth jubilee tournament of the National Archery Association held in Chicago Aug. 12 to 15. Archery though not so popular as golf or its kitchen sink (a la Will Rogers) variant, peewee golf, is older than golf, makes the same demands for coolheadedness and skill, yields the same exercise, is just as captivating of interest and enthusiasm. At the tournament several records were broken, notably the world's long-distance flight record with a yew bow. The Rev. L. L. Dailey...
When cannon boomed from Santiago de Cuba in 1898, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, temporarily down the coast on his crack, three-funneled flag-cruiser New York, turned her and raced back in time to see the last ship of Cervera's squadron sink, in the second and decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet...
...newly-married Ann. Tony's play, in Seven Keys to Baldpate style, goes on with the story from that point. It shows Pierre at the last minute sacrificing his career for Ann's sake, giving his little inheritance and his hard-earned money to Ann's husband, who sinks it in a wildcat gold mine. There is a murder, a bank robbery, Ann's husband deserts her, her father is arrested. The scene shifts to a Western desert: Pierre is hotfoot on the missing husband's trail. He finds him ... a gold mine (the great lode of Mother Mountain...
...each air tank was posted a brown native swimmer, manning valves which would admit water, let the pipe sink to the bottom of the bay. When all was ready a whistle blast was sounded and the offshore end started to submerge. Watchers saw the long serpent slowly disappearing, when suddenly something went wrong. The great pipe started slipping sidewise, gathering speed. Tremendous pressure of strong subsea currents had snapped one of the shore cables like cotton thread. Soon the other cable parted and the whole long pipe plunged downward out of sight, a total loss...
...competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary was that it would float in case of flood whereas the marbles of Praxiteles would sink), the contest seemed amusing...