Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still near enough, and popular determination to stay out of it was firmer than ever. Up for debate in the Senate came a bill, introduced by Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman of Nevada, to make present safeguards permanent. To keep U. S. ships from being sunk, U. S.-owned goods from being seized or destroyed, Senator Pittman further proposed to put all wartime trade with belligerents on a cash & carry basis. As soon as the President proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, no goods consigned to belligerents could leave U. S. ports until the buyers had acquired full title...
...Saskatchewan Prairie Chicken Trials and Dominion Championship. Sam showed his mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang sunk clear through his left flank. Few days later he ran a strong three-hour race in the National...
...dangerous up to the last moment on the football field, so it Kelley a dangerous man at all times on the court. In the game Yale played against Penn State the other night, the score stood at 31-29 against the Elis with but thirty seconds to play; Larry sunk two long shots to win the day in that closing half minute...
...season and that the Crimson was plying on the other fellow's court, and on a slippery floor at that, you get the 38-25 score as the result. The ball handling was sloppy, passes were too low or missed entirely, the defense was far from impregnable. Harvard sunk the first goal, but from that time on the Light Blue was never headed...
...boat upon which [we] stood was riding the waves buoyantly enough," said Dr. Murchison last week, "but I suspect that in the hearts of each one of us we had a feeling of being already sunk. . . . We saw in perspective a nation committed to a social and economic program which made its costs of manufacture emerge from the level of world costs as the tip of Pikes Peak emerges from the surrounding Rockies. . . . Yet it was a nation engaged in the promotion of trade liberalization. . . . We did not know at this time that, within a few days, we would...