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Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock...
TWENTIETH Century-Fox, which has been collecting $350 a month in royalties on seepage from an oil pool 1,500 feet below its Hollywood lot, plans more oil exploration. It has been given permission by Los Angeles officials to sink 13 wells on its property, hopes to collect royalties of $10,000 a month from each well in the next two years...
...nearly 60 miles, from Salida, down between the quarter-mile-high walls of the awesome Royal Gorge, and out again. Only a daring Swiss pair finished; most others dropped out short of the gorge, where capsized boatmen, flanked by sheer rock palisades, have little choice but to sink or be swept, dead or alive, through the canyon. Though .safer, the present shorter course is still a grim ordeal by white water, spiced by three major rapids threatening upsets and death to even the best boatmen...
...their poor showing in last year's Olympic trials. Moreover, the three-mile distance of the Syracuse Regatta was made to order for long-ranging Washington, while Navy had not raced beyond a mile and three quarters all season. Posted conspicuously in the Washington boathouse was the sign: "Sink the Navy...
...volunteer brigade fighting for the Boers against the British). Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married." But they did, with joy plotting together enough potential terrorism to sink the British Empire. But temperament drove them apart, and two years later they separated. In the 1916 Easter Rebellion, the British captured John MacBride and shot...