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Word: sank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puritans, who held a one-point advantage at halftime, waited until the last five minutes to break the deadlock. Jack Richards and Jim Powell then sank a total of six points to decide the match. Close guarding accounted for the low score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Five Stops Eliot To Wrest Intramural Lead | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

Freshman hopes sank last week when first-string goalie Phil Clark landed in Stillman Infirmary with mononucleosis and high-scorer Jack Carmen moved up to the Varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51, J.V. Skaters Face Nearby High Schools On Arena Ice Today | 2/3/1948 | See Source »

...much a root as a full-grown shoot. He had split away from Huey in 1931, calling his brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Bitin' Man | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Stovepipe Wells in California's Death Valley, where many a forty-niner died of thirst before he could get to the gold fields, two resort operators sank a 200-ft. shaft, brought in a well producing 40 gallons of water a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Marry (by Elisabeth Cobb & Herschel Williams; produced by Edgar F. Luckenbach) was quite understandably the work of two people: no one person would be capable of anything so bad. Its brightest witticisms heavier than a bride's first biscuits, it sank out of sight after three performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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