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...soon heard men hailing me from the water. I stopped the ship, turned on all lights, lowered boats and put life boats over the sides. I saw mattresses and wreckage and pulled one mat over the side of the boat. We got four men. I saw some men sink before we could get to them. After this no more men were found...
...morning they watched precious sacks of coal drop down a crevice, hover a moment on the brash ice, then sink into the Antarctic...
...year to enjoy Chekhov or Ibsen, came to regard the Civic Repertory as complacently as they would the Public Library. But water is cherished when the well begins to run dry. There was considerable excitement among the theatre's many friends last week when suddenly, by a sink-or-swim gesture, the Civic Repertory gave unexpected notice that it might sink...
...brief, uninspired talk. Afterwards, in front of a friend, Mrs. Lincoln burst out: "That was the worst speech I ever listened to in my life. How any man could get up and deliver such remarks to an audience is more than I can understand. I wanted the earth to sink and let me go through." The brain disease to which Biographer Sandburg attributes most of Mary Lincoln's shrewishness finally became too much for her; in 1875 her family had her committed to a sanatorium in Batavia, Ill. Set free a year later, she wandered un happily abroad, came...
...producers waited to see what jungle law would do to copper prices. U. S. consumption and production are about balanced now at 300,000 tons and it was felt U. S. prices would sink no lower than last week's 5?. But a fierce war for the other markets of the world was in sight, a war that would end either with the high-cost producers driven off or with a whipped Roan Antelope creeping into the corral. Running at full blast Roan can supply only 14% of the copper needed outside the U. S. But Roan...