Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team went ahead with the full confidence of the college behind it. It won the two opening games, but after the Army power machine had rolled over, there was little enough left. Again Dick Harlow started at the beginning, again there was drill on fundamentals, again confidence had sunk...
...River, which for much of its length forms the frontier between Soviet Siberia and Japan's puppet empire of Manchukuo (see map). Ambassador Shigemitsu was instructed to say that Japanese and Manchukuoan soldiers, while peacefully swimming in the Amur, had been fired upon by a Soviet gunboat, soon sunk by the avenging fire of their shore batteries. To this Commissar Litvinoff replied that a Japanese-Manchukuoan gunboat had opened fire on a Soviet outpost and that as the affray proceeded a Soviet gunboat had indeed been sunk. Soviet lives lost were two, according to Moscow, but Tokyo claimed...
...been tied on the Governor's line to show him how a tuna feels, a stunning explosion took place in the engine room, the yacht burst into flames. Governor Hoffman and his party of 27 were rescued, unscathed. The yacht burned to the water, was overturned and sunk by Coast Guardsmen...
...sums were subscribed by prominent San Franciscans and construction soon began at both ends under great engineering difficulties. Then came the 1906 earthquake. Most of the subscribed money was never put up, real estate operators grabbed land. By 1909 at least $7,500,000 had been sunk in the project, and the management was broke. Out forever stepped little Downey Harvey. Trains ran at each end for years, but in 1920 Ocean Shore was officially abandoned, its tracks torn...
What Americans little realize is that the Coronation marks an economic and political triumph for Great Britain and the Dominions. Jarred by the cataclysm of Edward Windsor, British manufacturers and tailors for some time saw the blackness of ruin, but now that Lloyd's rates have sunk, look to the Coronation as the biggest boom to business since the Jubilee. Returns will probably be higher than from the other celebration and high enough to rocket England into a decade of prosperity...