Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again become an expensive luxury for Italy and her ambitious, damn-the-expense Duce. Greatest achievement of Italians in Eritrea is to have introduced cotton culture in valleys previously thought incapable of growing cotton, then to have built capacious cotton gins at Asmara and Massawa. With cotton sunk like other world commodities, this achievement must remain a debit until world prices rise again...
...37th meeting of the two aggregations. Brown sees its first real chance of a victory over Yale since 1926, while the Blue players, on the other hand, realize that it is practically their last opportunity to snap out of the lethargy in which they have hitherto been sunk. A drastic switching around of the Blue linemen has apparently pepped up the Elis considerably, while leaving them with the same old backfield of Parker, Crowley, Lassiter, and Levering. On the whole, the odds are about even on the clash; Brown has already shown its machine a capable one against Springfield...
...pretty sight are those dying or dead from cholera. The disease, like typhoid, attacks the bowels, causes stupendous loss of body fluids. The whole body becomes covered with dank moisture. Cheeks become hollow, noses pinched, eyes sunk, voices husky. Death's rigor sets in quickly. Muscles become literally hard as wood. Sometimes a stiffening corpse jerks about, may kick out a foot, wave an arm. flap its jaws, roll its eyes...
Arrested off Nantucket by the U. S. Coast Guard as a rum-smuggler was Skipper Louie Doucette, famed for his World War feat of rowing 230 miles in an open boat after his vessel had been sunk by a German submarine...
...Mayor Bulganin on construction of their new subway. An electrical engineer, Mayor Bulganin spared no technical details, told at dry length what kind of motors will speed what kind of cars over what kind of rails with what consumption of kilowatts. "We are using the London type of deep-sunk tubes," he stated. "They will radiate like spokes of a wheel from our Central Subway Station which is now partly finished. The first train should traverse the first spoke late...