Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somewhat similar tests were made. A joint board of the Army and Navy then laid down the conditions for the experiment which some Army men felt were too severe a drawback to the aeroplanes. Nevertheless, the former German battleship, Ostfriesland, was sunk by the 2,000-pound bombs from the air. This time the Army airmen will not be restricted by the previous rules. Moreover, a new 4,300-pound demolition bomb has been invented to aid in the attack...
Depth charges sank 37; fixed mines, 36; fights with enemy submarines, 20; engine trouble, 14; torpedo boats, destroyers and subchasers, 13; accidental ramming, 8; armed fishing craft, 6; airplane bombs, 6; and submarine nets, 6. Three were sunk by regular patrol vessels, 3 by armed auxiliaries, 2 by cruisers, 2 by artillery fire, 1 by a liner at the entrance to the British base at Scapa Flow...
...HOUSE OP THE ENEMY?Ca-mille Mallarmé?McBride ($2.00). Interesting but by no means extraordinary novel of Spanish life in town and country, the heroine, Candida, begins as a carefree goatherd on the plains of La Mancha and ends as a respectable but un-happy señora sunk in the stultifying pettiness of a small Spanish town...
...kill. The marvel of Agostini's case is that he is a tenor. A tenor with a voice at 50 is a great rarity. Caruso, who was 49 when he died, was esteemed a wonder because he had a voice left at that age, although it had sunk to a high baritone. The tenor throat is a delicate instrument that survives few misfortunes, least of all that of time...
...humanly that desire for reform became more than understandable, and the sudden forgetfulness of him in the last act seemed all the more tragic. The Nastya of Alla Tarassova was made of less common clay than that of Pauline Lord's. She was a prostitute, she was sunk to the extremities of the life seen in the play, but there was still quality of beauty, and appeal to her. With the Moscow Art Theatre, as one expected, the Luka and the Nastya are but parts in a large and wonderful cast. In the American theatre and even in the Yiddish...