Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cleats of the 1936 grid squad sunk in Soldiers Field sod yesterday afternoon, as Dick Harlow directed his men in their first outdoor practice...
...masked by their own ships. From the exposed fighting top of his flagship, the Mikasa, Togo saw the Russian battleships, their formation broken, turn in desperate circles, watched four of them go down. Next day he got the cruisers. Against 10,000 casualties and practically the entire Russian fleet sunk, captured or beached, Togo lost three torpedo-boats, less than 1,000 killed and wounded. Banzai was the word for it. Togo lived a long time after that, but never so fully again. By the time of the World War he was no longer on the active list. His battered...
...Miss Spence five days a week, eight months of the year for more than eight years. She was a small rugged person with a quick step and a determined eye. I never saw her shocked but once-that was at the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. She did not call for smelling salts. She called the school together and announced neither she nor any institution she was connected with was neutral under the circumstances. WINTHROP B. PALMER (Mrs. Carleton Palmer) New York City
...portion of Ozie Powell's forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles on to Birmingham where a surgeon extracted a slug sunk one inch in his brain...
...Premier is having a Frenchman's own time in trying to keep. Since coming into office in June he has been sufficiently perplexed by France's economic and political crisis, a situation trying enough to sink many a lesser head of state as it had already sunk Doumergue and Flandin; but from this sizzling frying-pan he has been compelled to leap into a devil's fire oi a new kind of League politics. Attempting tc give Italy her promised free hand in Ethiopia, he has also acted as an Honest Broker in attempting to manacle that...