Word: sebastiano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, excavations begun several years ago by the Rev. Canon E. S. Hughes, vicar of St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, were said to have removed all doubt that both Saints, Peter and Paul, died in Rome and were buried near the Basilica of San Sebastiano, sometimes called "Basilica Apostolorum", on the Appian Way. The diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek...
...fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 7) the Italian fleet went forth to war maneuvers. Last week the fleet went forth again to pick up the casualties. For when the ships had returned to port the Sebastiano Veniero, submarine, 213 ft. in length, 925 tons submerged displacement, carrying six torpedo tubes and two 4-pounders, built during the early part of the War, had not returned. She had been ordered to ambush the "enemy" off Sicily and when last seen had been proceeding to her post Destroyers, dirigibles, submarines were sent in search...
Next day an aviator discovered a large spot of oil and naphtha floating on the water between Syracuse and Cape Passero. The bottom lay 4,000 feet below the floating oil. Hope for the Sebastiano Veniero was virtually abandoned...
...days later Premier Mussolini pronounced the Sebastiano Veniero lost with all hands, and expressed his grief in a message to the personnel of the submarine service...