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Word: sunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 15, 1912, a small group was standing about a gaping cellar at No. 25 South St., Manhattan, about to lay the cornerstone of the Seamen's Church Institute when newsboys ran past shouting the terrible news that the White Star Liner Titanic, largest ship afloat, had sunk with 1,513 passengers after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Year later on the same day the completed building was dedicated and the 200-ft. tower atop its 13 floors was named the Titanic Lighthouse Tower. Last week, on the twenty-fifth April 15 since the disaster, while foghorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Taps for the Titanic | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...snub-nosed freighters but still believed by old Chippewas, farmers and fishermen around the Straits of Mackinac is the Great Lakes' most eerie legend-the Indian Drum. Distinctly reverberant on nights of storm, the Drum of the Manitou has been heard to give one roll for every ship sunk on the Lakes, one beat for every life lost. Around one night on which the Drum counted wrong, Authors William Machharg & Edwin Balmer wrote a Great Lakes novel (The Indian Drum) whose authentic chill may well outlive the dangers of lake navigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lake Opening | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Although reporters found Rexist Degrelle looking utterly sunk and blaming his defeat on the lack of silence from Malines, his Fascist dander was soon up again, and Berlin was expected to pour heavy contributions into fresh efforts to turn Belgium Rexist. Exulted Victor van Zeeland: "The result has exceeded my wildest hopes! And now to work-all together, for King, Law and Liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Roey v. Rex | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...craft has just managed to stop or back away in time to avoid piling up on the shore. Agent Gray believes that so many ships have foundered there that the point is almost completely girt with an assortment of hulls, boilers, engines and at least one complete submarine sunk during the War. Agent Gray suspects that this mass of iron distorts the lines of earth magnetism so that ship compasses are swung fatally askew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flamborough Magnet | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Crimson got off to an early lead as Luiz sunk two, and Legg dropped another, but Yale slowly crept up and at the end of the half led by a score of 23-12. Despite all attempts to rally, the Yardling hoopsters were unable to regain the lead throughout the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee and Yardling Fives Bow to Superior Eli Teams | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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