Word: sunkenness
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...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...
...sandy bottom 50 feet below sea level off the coast of Costa Rica the U.S. submarine 529 lay prostrate on, its belly. Within, its crew perspired and waited. Divers descended, hoses were screwed to newly installed valves in the submarine's side, cool air invaded the sunken fish. Soon, afterward the divers attached air hoses to the ballast tanks of the vessel; then, cocking a snook through the heavy glass ports at those within, the divers rose to the surface. Great eddies began to surge from the ballast tanks as the water was forced out. Ten minutes later...
...minutes a black buoy bobbed up among the waves. Three anxious minutes crawled by. Then the head of Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski plopped out on the surface. A minute later Lieut. Charles B. Momsen emerged. They were the first two U. S. submariners ever to escape directly from a sunken craft...
...hydroairplane which last week waltzed high over Lake Nemi in the Alban hills back of Rome. And Giuseppe Cultrera, Etruscan scholar in the plane,* looked down from the vantage of his flying height through Nemi's waters and could see what none but groping divers theretofore had seen?the sunken Golden Barge whereon epileptic Emperor Caligula?, great-grandson of Augustus, and his minions held their carouses...