Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beard of Otto Tulyevich Schmidt became the most famed in all Russia, and his fame the most glamorous when he and his party of 101 were airplane-rescued from the ice-sunk Chelyuskin (TIME, April 13, 1934). Subsequently he almost died of pneumonia. Last week, hale & hearty, this editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia and Chief of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration was back in Leningrad after an air tour of Polar settlements. The ecstasy he offered to eager Communists this time was an elaborate scheme for civilizing their blubber-munching Eskimos...
John Harvard, M. A. Cambridge dying in 1636 gave his name to the new institution along with a very modest legacy--L400 to match the investment of the General Court and his entire library of 300 volumes. The endowment was evidently appreciated more than some of the stupendous sums sunk in later institutions (Rockefeller gave millions to the University of Chicago, but it is still called Chicago...
...that was mortal of Huey Pierce Long was buried last week in a copper-lined vault sunk in the front lawn of the State Capitol at Baton Rouge. From the 33-floor tower of the Capitol which the murdered Dictator had built as a $5,000,000 monument to himself and which now served as his headstone, reporters saw that the vast funeral crowd had choked the roads for miles around. Below, ringed by 100,000 spectators, of whom some 200 fainted during the long wait before the services began, lay a great bright field of floral tributes: little bunches...
...Winner Howard the $4,500 prize money came in handy. A married airmail pilot with a distinguished racing record, he constantly designs new racing planes, had sunk his last cent in Mister Mulligan. A dark, lanky, unostentatious man of 31, he contrasts strongly with swashbuckling, peacocky Colonel Turner, who last week thirsted for revenge, waited impatiently for the final spectacular Thompson Trophy Race in which he hoped to regain his laurels as No. 1 U. S. speedster...
...Deal in 1933, was a success because the price climbed to 12?; and the Government could get out. The third of 12? made last year was followed by a slump of cotton prices to 117? with the result that farmers dumped their surplus on the Government which today is sunk with some 5,000,000 bales...