Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none of the other food was injured in the least Washburn said that the force of the box as it hit the snow, instead of burying it many feet, merely caused it to throw up a wide crater in the bottom of which could be found the box, sunk less than six inches...
Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
...they do that Harvard's sunk. Mitchell's laddies haven't looked like a pennant winner most of this season, and this is going to be a pretty tough assignment. The Green is in somewhat the same boat as Harvard. Both teams have only one Grade A experienced pitcher. Here at Cambridge it's Captain Eddie Loughlin; up at Hanover it's Bob Miller, the fellow who took both halves of a doubleheader from Pennsylvania last week. With Miller carrying most of the assignment Dartmouth has turned in a dangerous record lately. Outside the League they've taken colleges like...
...finishing touch to their careers. Bertram surprised them by enlisting at the first shot, shocked them by getting gloriously killed. Ethel's naval husband, having first embarrassed, then bored them both with his clandestine affairs, was torpedoed, sunk without trace. Meg conceived a passion for her elderly-married rector, finally did neither of them any good by writing to the Bishop about his imaginary advances. The father, weighed down by carking business cares and a German grandmother, hanged himself. Ethel's sons were left to carry on. Readers will admire Author Scott's ingenuity in projecting...
Last week was the third of a slow, shuffling decline in the stockmarket. From last month's high of 106.9 the Dow-Jones average of industrial stocks listed on the New York Exchange had sunk to 92. U. S. Steel was down from a 1934 high of $59 to $42, General Motors from $42 to $31, Baltimore & Ohio R. R. from $34 to $21, Allied Chemical from $160 to $133. Weakened by a thrice-pared dividend and rate-reduction threats, the leading power & light stock, Consolidated Gas, was selling near its Bear Market low of $31.50. Chart-watchers...