Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beautiful chapel which is shortly to be raised is opposed by certain crass souls so sunk in materialism that they prefer the flesh pots to the beauty of tranquil worship in cool marble halls. And think of the poor boys sleeping their last sleep in France--what could be more suitable than this aspiring, finger pointing toward Heaven in perpetual memory of their noble exploits? And what is wrong with the present gymnasium besides the fact that it is old and-considerably infested with the smallest of God's creatures. After all, should God be sacrificed because...
Briand was elected by the left. He advocated policies, not so extreme as Herr. ot's, but definitely opposed to the capitalist-militarist doctrine of Poincare. And upon these policies, the right was Briand's foe. Now, however, in seeking to stay the franc, already sunk to an unspeakably low ebb, the Briand government has placed the crucial matter of debts and debt liquidation into the hands of expert financiers, hoping that they can evolve a solution The Premier's supporters on the left, who have less to lose from a financial debacle than the more capitalistic right have deserted...
...this man-of-war the first forged projectile, which he had demonstrated at the proving grounds would penetrate the armor of the Merrimac as it had been reproduced from the specifications furnished by spies. It was the regret of John Ericsson's life that the Merrimac was not sunk by the Monitor in the first encounter. The powder charge required to drive the shell through the armor had been cut in two by order of the War Department, it being deemed unsafe to the gunners. In the second encounter, after the Monitor had narrowly escaped being rammed, the crew...
...Alban Mountains, 300 feet beneath the placid waves of the Lago di Nemi,* there are known to rest two gorgeous pleasure barges built for the mad Emperor Caligula, loaded with many of his treasures and sunk inexplicably in this volcanic lake. Last week Premier Mussolini ordered the Ministry of Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts...
Last week the news was spread: Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, aged 28, was in financial difficulties. His tabloid newspapers, the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News (maximum circulation 214,000), San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald (maximum circulation 135,000), the Miami Tab (only 18 months old) needed more money. He had sunk $100,000 of his own money. He had 5,000 fellow stockholders. He had borrowed $1,080,000 from his father. But he still needed $300,000 to put his papers on a paying basis?and his father would lend him no more. He tried to pledge his patrimony?...