Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enlisted in the Navy, was commissioned an ensign and assigned to the Santiago, which was sunk on July 19, 1918. On his return to College this fall he was immediately placed at quarterback on the University eleven...
Professor R. A. Daly '93, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, returned to the University last Sunday from a successful field trip to the Samoan Islands, Several important discoveries were made, including the finding of positive proof than within geologically recent time the surface of the ocean has sunk approximately twenty feet. This has long been suspected by geologists but definite confirmation of the theory has been lacking until this discovery...
...each offer camouflaged as Peace, hides the grinning skeleton of other wars; of national and personal deceit; of the advance repudiation of the very obligations they propose to take; of the absolute indifference to Right; of the utter lack of aggregate and individual honor. All these are gladly lost, sunk, destroyed, in the mad stress to achieve unholy means to unholy ends. It is hopeless to treat for peace with sovereigns so entirely turned from right to wrong thought. But one thing these peace offers with baleful, hidden purposes will do: they will fix forever our determination to conquer this...
...announced in Parliament the results of the U-boats' first year of unrestricted warfare as they compared with the amount of tonnage built during the year. Great Britain and America together had launched only a little over two million tons, whereas it is estimated that the U-boats have sunk some six million tons of Allied shipping...
...have occupied Richmond, New Orleans and Charleston, and stopped the war there. If, in 1915, the United States had had a regular force of half a million, and fairly efficient reserve of twice that number, it is my belief," said Professor Johnston, "That the Lusitania would never have been sunk...