Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beethoven was an unknown. Count Apponyi's grandfather alone had defended the piece, but do you know what the men were doing all the time the Count was telling that story? They were saying, 'Why I'd have won that $10 sure if I'd sunk that putt on the third hole...
Perhaps because of almost unrestricted sale of Birth Control literature, Britain's birth rate has now sunk below that of all other nations except Sweden, "where every child born is a wanted child...
Third in the Open, two strokes behind Burke and Von Elm, was green-eyed Leo Diegel. On his second round, he had sunk his tee shot at the 13th hole, the first hole-in-one made in an Open since 1922. Fourth was Gene Sarazen, dapper little ex-caddy...
Shanghai businessmen, oddly enough, were among the most excited rejoicers at what President Hoover proposed.* Shanghai bankers said that the Hoover postponement would raise the price of silver, help to raise China's pitifully sunk silver-standard currency. Their theory: postponing will ''improve world trade." In this improvement China will share. More trade with China will increase the demand for silver in which she deals. In Shanghai the price of silver upped suddenly, fantastically some...
...have the Canton rebels sunk, having taken you for their Minister of Foreign Affairs! As a Trinidad-born foreigner posing as Chinese, you were only a messenger boy during the late Sun Yatsen's Government at Canton...