Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foundations of the Circus Maximus in Rome, a wood and stone coliseum capable of seating 300,000 persons. Mr. Burchell will explain the further plans for excavations in Pompell and Herculaneum and for the draining of a lake whose bottom holds the pleasure large of the Emperor Tiberins, sunk in the second century of the Christian...
Prince Dolgorukovo has been resident in Paris since the Red Revolution, has sunk to penury. Riches indisputably his were to be had for the digging, in Russia. By great good fortune he was able to buy a forged Russian passport from a Soviet official in Paris. Fifty per cent of the to-be-dug-up-treasure was all the official asked, and he entered Russia with Prince Dolgorukovo to insure good faith...
...Galleries, Manhattan, last week. He was particularly pleased with his "Portrait of a Typical American Young Man" and his model-Melville E. Stone III, 22, grandson of the onetime general manager of the Associated Press, son of the late Herbert S. Stone, who was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. The portrait was made two years ago when young Mr. Stone left Yale and commenced to sell bonds for Lee, Higginson & Co. of Chicago. No doubt, his mail will soon be choked with sentimental gush from shop girls, waitresses, home girls, hoydens; with offers of vaudeville and cinema contracts...
...Lady, whose artless Beauty, innocence of Mind, and gentle Manners, once obtain'd her the Love and Esteem of all who knew her, But when Nerves were too delicately spun to bear the rude Shakes and Jostlings which we meet with in this transitory World, Nature gave way; she sunk and died a Martyr to Excessive Sensibility...
...found their open pits were becoming death traps as "mud rushes" (slides) caved in upon them from the perimeter. Subsoil mining followed as a matter of course, but subsoil mining is expensive. It was in forming the great mining syndicates which bought out the open pit "little fellows" and sunk deep mines that such men as Cecil Rhodes amassed great fortunes- and Barney Barnato was not far behind Rhodes in diamond wealth...