Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earlier nineteenth century, the nearly complete lack of public taste, and the banality of stagecraft Despite its deft writing, it is a depressing little pamphlet, revealing more than one likes to see of the awful depths to which even the bravest and best of English dramaturges have sunk...
...commodity, proposing definite quotas for the various sources of U. S. sugar supply. Restriction would be paid for by a processing tax, but a reduction in the sugar tariff would keep the consumer from bearing the burden. This proposal promised relief not only for an industry that has been sunk in overproduction for a full decade but also for hard-pressed Cuba. The preliminary quotas proposed by the President: U. S. Sugar Beets. . . . . . . . 1,450,000 short tons...
...eyes of sympathetic but impartial observers Scot MacDonald has sunk in his own Cabinet until he has about the stature of a Cordell Hull, pleading vainly for such anciently good things as free trade and international concord while men of the Roosevelt and Chamberlain stamp lead their countries on to nationalism...
...British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring Ur of the Chaldees under the direction of the Museum's veteran Excavator Charles Leonard Woolley, unearthed a temple dedicated to the moon-goddess Nin-Gal. complete with shrines and food preparation chambers. Also discovered was a brick-lined well, sunk by King Ur-Engur (2300 B. C.) and conscientously repaired by later rulers, one of whom imbedded eight tablets in the masonry describing his work. Greece. Continuing their long delving into the Athenian marketplace, men under Princeton's Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear sifted 23,000 tons of earth, turned...
...with no orders from his Japanese superiors, obscure "Lieut. Maki" abruptly fires a torpedo into the Houston, which sinks. Though a Japanese court martial sentences Lieut. Maki to be shot, war has meanwhile been declared. After a terrific air and naval battle most of the U. S. fleet is sunk and Japan as a starter seizes the Hawaiian Islands. The Dream ends as a monument to Lieut. Maki is unveiled in conquered Honolulu...