Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dewey, President of the Court) and the personality of Schley was not dissimilar to that of Colonel Mitchell. Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron from March to June 1898. Then Sampson was placed over him. But at the battle of Santiago when Cervera's fleet was sunk, Sampson was absent and Schley was in active command. After the war a move was made to promote Sampson over the head of Schley, who had ranked him for 42 years. That started a controversy in which Schley's adherents asserted that he had been responsible for the success...
...hired. A force of Americans will be sent over to superintend the job; food, household furniture and everything else will be sent after them. And in five or six years raw rubber will begin to pour out of where the jungle was?because $100,000,000 will have been sunk in making Liberia useful...
Impeded by rough weather which kept cranes in shelter miles away from the spot where the submarine S-51 was sunk off Block Island in collision with the coastwise steamer City of Rome, the would-be rescuers of any sailors alive in the sunken submarine lost hope. Two divers sent down each succeeded in entering the battery room hatch and each brought up the body of a seaman...
There seems to be a subtle connection between the number of these communication which arrive all the CRIMSON office at any given time, and the amount of electricity in the college atmosphere. When students' minds are alert, the mails are full; when the undergraduates appear sunk in slothful indifference, they have neither praise nor censure to offer on any subject...
Within a few seconds, before ring buoys could be thrown overboard, the submarine had sunk. The searchlight of the steamer began to search the dark waters below-and then suddenly burned out-leaving the sea once again in undisturbed darkness. In six or seven minutes boats were lowered. Three men were found in the water, seamen from the S-51 caught from their bunks and vomitted up through the conning tower by the sea water pouring through the hole...