Word: sunkenness
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...winds from the steppes blew across the Balkans, sending the temperature to -30°. In The Netherlands the earth was hard as brick; canals and flooded lands, which Holland counts on to defend her, were sheets of ice. On Belgium's eastern plateau, where the twelve modern sunken fortresses of Liege guard the route the Germans once took, caked snow crunched under the boots of marching troops. Ice crept out from the shores of the Baltic and the Gulf of Bothnia, where Russian planes bombed Sweden's Kallaks Island (see p. 30). And with the cold came fear...
...Crew members of the sunken Norwegian steamer Lappen testified in Marine Court at Bergen last week that no mine or torpedo sent their ship down, but an explosion set by one of her officers to collect insurance for the owners. None of Lappen's crew was hurt...
Partial object of mining in or near an enemy's channels is to fill them with wreckage that will menace other ships. Last week on the British east coast, three small British ships ran fatally afoul of the sunken Canada...
...correspondent found eleven lucky slum children quartered on a big estate with yew trees, sunken lawns, wrought-iron gates and a flock of servants to wait on them. When he arrived, the children were clinging to their delighted host's coattails, calling him "Uncle." They reported that they had roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for dinner, were allowed to read...
John Kennedy, 21, second son of President Roosevelt's alert Ambassador Joe, was shot by his sire from London up to Glasgow last week to help interview survivors of the sunken S. S. Athenia. He was authorized to say that the U. S. steamer Orizaba was being sent over to fetch the Athenians home. The neutral yacht Stella Polaris was also being sought from Raymond-Whitcomb Travel Service (world tours...