Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawrence, "a sort of latter-day Carlyle rather than a latter-day Blake," he doffs his hat: "Let there be no mistake, however: in a hundred years he will probably still be on the literary map, while I, and those like me, will have sunk without trace from every record of the Georgian...
Indeed, it is disgraceful that the daily undergraduate paper of so great a University should have sunk to such a low state. Harry Kahn...
...President Roosevelt should decide that no Democrat can control prices, if he should give that job to a Republican especially close to Herbert Hoover, then the New Deal would have sunk as low as Adolf Hitler felt obliged to stoop last week...
Physicists have not been content to pursue the cosmic ray in laboratories. They have carried their ionization chambers to mountain peaks, installed them on round-the-world ships, sunk them to the bottom of deep lakes, taken them down in mines, flown them in airplanes, sent them up in balloons manned and unmanned. All over the world, from Panama to Ceylon, from the Equator to within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole, they have carried a cosmic quest which has cost at least two lives. It has been found that cosmic rays are either particles of matter or units...
...preparing to balance the 1935 budget by painful slices of 93,000,000 guilders ($63,000,000) in expenditures, but even so Holland was ready to spend $8,240,000 for new ships for the East Indian Navy. A few would not stay silent. No sooner had Queen Wilhelmina sunk back on her plush throne than three Communist Deputies rose before their horrified colleagues to shout objections. Hustled from the room, they were promptly arrested...