Word: sunkenness
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...face, long, pointed, waxed mustaches, promenaded from his Lhasa villa to the Potala, most magnificent of palaces. This was the Grand Lama himself, famed politico-religious absolute primate of Buddha. Above him, to the topmost of its gold-vermilion finials, now caught by the last reflected glow of the sunken sun, soared 436 feet in air his ancient palace, crowning a green-clad mountain. The Grand Lama passed within...
TIME was so far from supposing that the bow of the S-51 came up "by the desire or intent of the salvage force" as to state ". . . (the) workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves. . . ." The facts of this accident as reported by TIME do not differ materially from those cited by Captain King. None the less TIME did not explicitly state that the pumping of a small amount of air into the lifting pontoons on the day in question was but a preliminary action, not intended to produce the disastrous...
Grim with her phantom cargo of 24 decayed sailors' bodies, unredeemed since last September, the S-51 freighted them to decent Christian burial in respectable cemeteries. Fortnight ago the Navy failed in a big attempt to raise the sunken casket because of heavy seas arising (TIME, July 5), swore it would succeed next time...
...coast of Connecticut seven squat little ships rode the grey waves of the Atlantic at dawn one sombre morning last week; a thousand men waited the order to "Blow her out" which would start the sunken submarine S-51 toward the surface from off her slimy bier in the ocean...
...combers which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and sway in her bed like a restive sleeper, start behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared. It seemed that all that remained was to blow out the stern pontoons and tow the resurrected ship and her ghastly cargo back to a Christian harbor...