Word: sunkenness
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...President Roosevelt has pointed out, housing conditions in this country have sunken to such a level that they constitute a national problem, a problem with which the present generation must come to grips. Earvard, by its action, has shown that it is still in close touch with actualities and is as anxious as the Democratic Party to relieve "one-third of the nation...
...cheap land (near the Negro quarter), with union labor, standard materials and a satisfactory profit to the contractor, he put up a one-story structure bounding three sides of a rectangle with a sunken grass court (Powell & Morgan, architects). Ten living units of four rooms & bath each have individual front doors opening in this court. Each unit has its own heating plant. There are no garages. Rent: $25 per month per unit, or $6.25 per room...
...Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, now presides over all U. S. coinage & bullion as director of the Mint. Last month she made a trip to West Point to inspect the vast strong box she had had built in a corner of the Military Academy's reservation. Semi-sunken, its obdurate walls made of reinforced concrete, Mrs. Ross's strong box is to hold over a billion and a quarter dollars' worth of silver bullion purchased by the Treasury in Manhattan and now overflowing the Assay Office there. "This," said Mrs. Ross with a wave...
...batteries on the banks. Japanese landing parties, aided by the Navy's guns, inched their way westward along the shores. At week's end the naval drive had reached a point below Matang, 250 miles away from Hankow, where the Chinese have blocked the river with timbers, sunken junks and hunks of concrete. Eleven other barriers straddle the river between Kinkiang and Hankow. This week, Japanese mine sweepers, gingerly nosing up to the boom, were driven off by Chinese big guns at the Matang fort, and Chinese General Chang Fah-kwei, entrusted last week by the Generalissimo...
...Baconian studies were his greatest efforts in the field of daffy scholarship, but Atlantis: The Antediluvian World was his most sensational book. In Lost Atlantis James Bramwell has placed it in perspective against some 1,700 other works about the sunken continent, acknowledges that for many believers in the Atlantis theory Donnelly's masterpiece is the "beall and end-all of Atlantean studies." Author Bramwell himself takes the Atlantis myth seriously, but his main purpose is to review Atlantean writing from Plato to the findings of contemporary geologists. The result is another literary oddity, a smoothly-written, ironic...