Word: sunkenness
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...Harkness Commons, with its lounge rooms, glass walls, sunken courtyard, and murals emphasizes the graduate student's return to good living...
Work on the center is almost completed, but still to be installed is a 27-foot stainless steel pylon which will be in the sunken outdoor courtyard...
...National Association of Master Plumbers (meeting in San Francisco) for being the alltime heroes of U.S. plumbers: Movie Director Cecil B. DeMille (for "selling the plumbing idea throughout the world by his favorite device of divesting some gorgeous creature-female-and filming her in a gold-plated or sunken or even fur-lined bathtub"), and Benjamin Franklin (for bringing back a copper, shoe-shaped bathtub from France...
...fish for it. The MacLeans, however, were not giving up that easily. They built a stone fort on the shores overlooking the site of the wreck, and announced their firm intention "to shoot guns, pistols and muskets" at any Argyll diver who attempted to "duck and work" near the sunken wreck. In 1683 Captain William Campbell sailed the frigate Anna of Argyll into the harbor and ordered the divers "to sink their bells . . . and duck and work regardless of the threats of the MacLeans." The embattled treasure-seekers managed to catch "a crowne or diadem, and had hooked the sayme...
...Argylls and those residents of Tobermory who can still hear the captain's dog howling on their beaches at night, hope lived on, and the search went forward. The MacLeans were not talking. There is also a legend that everything worth taking from the sunken galleon was taken 300 years ago-by a MacLean...