Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play his trump card, and call another conference to limit subsidiary building. Some say that Great Britain and Japan would welcome such a proposal. If naval rivalry is to end, this action must be taken eventually. Ordinary common sense dictates that it be done now, before more millions are sunk into ship to be scrapped. It is far more economical to scrap plans than ships...
...career as an artist, author, soldier, and explorer is colored with experiences all over the globe. In Tripoli harbor, he discovered the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia, where it had been sunk a century before by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur of the American Navy. In South America, in 1907 he made extensive explorations, and collected valuable material which was afterward presented to the American Museum of Natural History, and the Peabody Museum of the University. In 1912, Colonel Furlong turned his attention to the Western part of this country and won the world's rough-riding championship by riding...
...received from any of the other signatories of the treaty any protest or observation whatever tending to show that they have the slightest notion that Great Britain is not carrying out her side according to the letter and the spirit. I presume that all these governments cannot have sunk into a condition of coma, nor that they are all completely indifferent to the interests of the countries they govern, so that it was left to a private citizen to make these alarming disclosures...
...There he fell under the influence of Franz Metzner, Austrian master. From that time on, his success was assured. His reputation gradually swept Europe. The chief characteristics of Mestrovic's work are a rigid simplicity of line; draperies falling in straight close folds; hard, grim faces; heads sunk low or crammed awkwardly into chests; abnormally long noses; cramped postures; elongated forms. Many of these characteristics may be traced to the influence of Metzner. Mestrovic's Madonnas are a distinct type, almost a formula. They are a queer, rigid combination of an almost Eastern tradition with Western realism. Somber, stiff figures...
...Navy Department. The plans called for planting bombs in the water around the ship and exploding them in imitation of airplane attack to see just how well modern armament could withstand such shocks. After several days of such tests, scientifically conducted, if the Washington were not yet sunk, the battleship Texas would be at hand to use her for target practice...