Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain regards the Greek Navy with a protective motherly eye, British officers having trained it, British shipyards having helped build it. Naval officers in London pointed out last week that if the Averoff and Helle should be sunk "the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean would pass to Turkey." Just to be sure, three British cruisers and four destroyers were promptly sent to the British island of Cyprus. Greeks in Greece, who know that their deposed King George II is a close friend of King-Emperor George V and a frequent guest at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, suspected...
...Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz had visited the district, showed interest in scattered pieces of conglomerate. Hulbert hastened to Boston, enlisted such glittering names-Higginson, Hunnewell, Livermore, Agassiz, Quincy Adams Shaw, Horatio Bigelow-that his venture became known as the copper company with a Harvard accent. The first shaft was sunk in 1864, and the rich lode spread and deepened with every foot it slanted into the earth. Hecla Mining Co. paid its first dividend late in 1869, Calumet Mining Co. six months later. In 1871 the two were merged. Fifty years later C. & H. had yielded total dividends...
...Anglers hooked a victory right from under the trunk of the Elephant yesterday afternoon by winning the basketball contest 14-12. In the second game, the Puritan quintet topped the Deacons 15-7. All seven of the Deacon tallies were sunk by Thomas Robinson...
...series of long shots by the home team brought the crowd to its collective feet, but the scoring came too late, and the game ended shortly after Lavietes had sunk a long throw for the last points of the game...
...present day is notable for a dearth of any other kind of oratory than the perniciously emotional. One has only to listen to the average political harangues, or to read the Congressional Record, to realize to what depths public speaking has sunk in America. Both our politicians, and those we like to call our statesmen, have no compunctions about dragging into any speech, whatever the occasion, Washington, Lincoln,--even God Almighty, who is invoked in the name of Republicans, Democrats, Irishmen, Poles, reactionaries and radicals. He who combines reason with emotion is indeed a rarity. The result is that...