Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overflowing the brim, through fissures, and through "tubes", which occur when molten lava has run out from under a hardened crust above, leaving a natural pathway two or three miles long and from 50 to 60 feet high. In the last eruption the lava overflowed but it has again sunk to its former level, about 120 feet beneath the brim...
...troubles, his own skirmishes with the "Reds"--he was twice wounded--his own visits to "yurtas", where the blood of the last murdered victim had not yet sunk into the ground, his own wanderings by horse, cart, camel, and on foot, Dr. Ossendowski has not forgotten to look about him and learn. The last section of the book, in which he tells of the fabled "King of the World", and sets forth Buddhistic prophecies and miracles, is undoubtedly a more than unique thing. Strangest of all--the passage that causes the Christian reader to gasp as he suddenly and without...
...devices, a submarine away out at sea west of Brest and traced her so successfully that the Parker was able to drop a barrage of sixteen depth bombs around her, injuring her so severely that she was obliged to return to port. This was the famous U-53 which sunk our destroyer, the Jacob Jones, and was so successful in attacking merchant vessels, though she was not at this time in command of Hans Rose, whose efficiency made her famous...
...that the present laws, punishing indecencies after exhibition, are sufficient. The only reason for punishing obscene or crime-provoking exhibitions is to prevent moral injury to the spectators. Mr. Will Hays, himself, said to a deputation from Massachusetts: "It would be better that the whole film industry should be sunk in the depths of the sea than that the delicate mechanism of the child's mind should be defiled." But, if the exhibition is once given, the harm is done. Legal procedure is costly of time and money, and in practical experience, procedure against immoral shows is found simply...
...overflow from the home jails. There she became a floating prison to which men were sentenced for terms varying from seven years to life, often for what are now considered petty offenses. She was sold in 1868 by the British when the convict system was reformed. She was later sunk in Sydney harbor, but was raised and sent on an exhibition tour around the world. The ship is now on exhibition at Warren Bridge near North Station, in Boston...