Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coaxed out the next morning they bungle the job and the hawser, worth 50,000 francs, breaks within an hour. When a second hawser breaks, the Greek crew beg frantically to be taken off. Captain Renaud refuses, and the Greek ship sends out wild messages that the Cyclone has sunk. The Cyclone's, smashed radio transmitter prevents cursing Captain Renaud denying the charge, and while the furious crew of the Cyclone risk their lives to rescue its occupants, including the beautiful French wife of the Greek captain, the towing hawser fouls their propeller. They drift toward a reef...
...Calais. When she turns out to be Lady Elizabeth Stacy, wife of a foppish young peer (George Sanders), frustrated Blake puts all his energies into Lloyd's. He has made himself head of its most powerful syndicate when his semaphore brings the news that the French have sunk 63 British merchant ships off the Azores. All of Lloyd's insurance men are on the brink of ruin...
...Massachusetts' public schools, although almost two centuries old, were sunk in physical and spiritual disrepair. One third of the Commonwealth's children had no educational opportunities whatever. The Secretary of the new Board of Education began his work with little authority, less encouragement. Tirelessly he set about raising money, delivering speeches, holding Town meetings to spread the gospel of universal education. Without fanfare he established a Normal school in Lexington, first in the U. S. He set up and enforced a minimum school year of six months. In the next decade Massachusetts spent more than...
Beginning next summer the Mt. Washington observatory will have a new building on the summit. This structure, two stories high, has been designed by the engineering staff of the Boston and Maine railroad to withstand wind velocities of over 200 miles an hour, and will be anchored by bolts sunk four feet into the rock. Construction is already in progress, under the direction of Col. Henry N. Teague...
...Hocking Counties, the home of 5,000 people. In places the 51-year-old fire has pierced above ground, burning buildings, destroying valuable timber, causing some deaths. Property values in the towns of New Straitsville and Shawnee and environs have dropped because of smoke and noxious gases. Roadways have sunk as much as five feet and at danger points signs warn motorists to proceed at their own risk. Miners in nearby active workings have been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide seeping through from the fiery shafts. Occupants of twelve houses" near New Straitsville were evacuated when the foundations buckled. The town...