Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hours before the ferry bearing the exiles was expected, the entire population of Trelleborg was at the pier, with bands, flowers, flags, and Swedish Boy Scouts. The moment the ferryboat landed they rushed forward, cheering, weeping. Embarrassed Gammal-Svenksby exiles, with sunken windburnt faces, found themselves being kissed, hugged and thumped by hysterical strangers...
Only two of the sunken crew escaped, her commander, Lieutenant R. J. Gardner, and Telegraphist Sydney Cleburne, who happened to be in the conning tower. Three men were lost from the L-12, which was sucked down 40 feet after the collision but bobbed up again and made port without assistance...
...Florida. The bed from which he rises at 7 is crumbless, for at "Kijkuit" no one may breakfast abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin, stooped shoulders, and his stomach. Harmless looking from the outside, it is this organ which has caused him more woe than anything else in life. A folkstory says this stomach is "lined with silver." The Master dons one of several hundred ties, selects...
...unveiling of Mr. Sargent's paintings in the Widener Library was an event of great importance in the artistic history of the University. The two paintings fill the sunken panels at the right and left of the main doorway into the room of memorial photographs and the Widener collection. They are intended as a memorial to the students of Harvard University who lost their lives in the Great...
...underwater disasters as the S-51 and 54, the Navy Department last week placed orders for the manufacture of 6,300 of the new, successfully tested "lungs" developed jointly by Lieut. C. B. Momsen, Chief Gunner C. L. Tibbals and Frank Hobson, civilian engineer, to help sailors escape from sunken submarines (TIME, Feb. 18). Each of the 2,600 officers and men on submarine duty will be furnished with two or more of the devices...