Word: sunkenness
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...disappeared. Kopliner retrieved the cobalt through the blood stains of the thief, but the etchings, along with $11,000 worth of stamps from Brown, and $11,000 worth of Aztec trinkets from Penn, are still missing. The alumnus turned up a year and a half later trapped in a sunken auto...
Harvard's rise to national grid fame was not so sudden as Centre and the decline from the ranks of the mighty has been more gradual. Despite what some of the nation's more snide press scribes may write, the Crimson also has not sunken to the obscurity of Centre College. Eastern football in general has skidded into amateurim and the Crimson has gone along with the trend--though most Harvard fans might wish that the Crimson were not holding up the bottom of the de-emphasized league...
...Seattle Engineer Wayne M. Ross planned to do was build a simplified sonar* device for finding sunken outboard motors, lost fishing gear and other salvage. When he thought he had solved the problem, he mounted his invention on a fishing boat and tested it off the coast of Alaska. It worked so well that he could not only spot schools of fish, he could usually tell what kind they were (by the size of the school and the depth at which it swam). Even more important, in narrow, rock-lined Alaskan channels his underwater signals bounced back from shoals...
...Luckily the Yangtse was in high water, but, even so, the tortuous, silted channel was a skipper's nightmare-especially without an experienced Chinese pilot. And even if Kerans had the luck to stick to the channel while ducking Communist artillery, there was still a boom of sunken ships to pass, 40 miles downriver...
...March 1950 he made his last senatorial gesture-a long letter addressed to Paul Hoffman, in which he pleaded for an end of Republican sniping at bipartisanship. On July 12, 1950, emaciated, sunken-eyed and doomed by cancer, he made his last appearance in the Senate chamber. He returned to Grand Rapids and his old home on Morris Avenue...