Word: sunkenness
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...another destroyer a different method is being used. Cables are attached to the sunken vessel and to floating barges. When the tide goes out, the cables are tightened; the incoming tide then lifts the barges and the vessel together. The whole group is thereupon towed into shallower water until the sunken vessel grounds-and the process is repeated. Needless to say, this is slow work...
...Possibility of blasting any sunken ship out of the way without damaging the canal...
...Lovere, Italy, a ten-months old baby, with sunken eyes, too weak to cry, was found by soldiers floating in its cradle down the river Oglio...
...sons in the War in both the American and German armies, and underwent the agonies of such a sardonic situation. ''They might be killing each other," she would say, with a sudden look of sorrow on her merry face. One son went to horrible doom in a sunken German submarine. These emotional pangs have bred in her a great pity and tenderness for soldiers of all races. It is this which has made her devote herself to the American Legion, for whose benefit she sings constantly...
...readings from Shakespeare: the first part of "Henry IV" and "Twelfth Night." At the first meeting of the Hissar Players Mr. Reade gave a talk on contemporary French drama, speaking especially of the work of Paul Claudel. At the second meeting members of the club read Hauptmann's "Sunken Bell," which was prefaced by a short account of contemporary German drama given by Dr. Watson. Paul Claudel's "L'Annon ce Faits a Marie" was read at the third meeting of the Hissar Players...