Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theoretically, the Saratoga might have been sunk before its planes returned, when at last it fell under the guns of the searching Blues, but the damage would have been done; the Canal was "destroyed;" the supporting fleet must have circled the Horn to have reached the Pa cific...
ONDINE WAS ONE OF 12 SUBMARINES 600 TONS TYPE JUST COMPLETED SHE WAS ONE OF THE BEST AND NEWEST IN FRENCH SUBMARINE COASTAL DEFENSE PROGRAM WAS SUNK ON HER FIRST ENDURANCE TRIAL FROM BREST TO BIZERTA WE HAVE BUILT AND ARE BUILDING BIGGER LONG RANGE SUBMARINES OF OTHER TYPES...
Unavoidably the Indians, who do most of Bolivia's fetching and carrying, are sunk in degraded peonage. The small ruling class of Spanish descent has but one callous, inevitable aim-to keep the Indians down. Last year some 50,000 peons, many half starved, attempted a desperate revolt. They were quelled by the bayonet. Official Bolivian despatches described the uprising as "Communistic...
...Tammany campaign, in its closing hours, has sunk from the sidewalks to the sewers* of New York," said Hooverism's chief publicist...
...This picture repeats in a general way the tactics of "Beau Brummel". It lets John (we always called him John at school) spend the first half of the picture as a smooth lad, a lieutenant in the Russian army, and the second half as a shaggy, sunk-eyed 'Bolshevist...