Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British submarine H-29, tilted suddenly and inexplicably at her dock in Devonport Basin last week, sank within a minute and a half. Some men leaped to the wharf, some into the water; none died. Four other British submarines have sunk since...
...been capable of instruction," said the New York Evening Post at the time of his death," he would have been the greatest landscape artist of any period or people." The pictures that he painted with such stormy concentration were usually as tranquil as twilight. Brown cows sunk in August meadows, fly-twitching, drowsily browsing; sheep streaming, grey blurs, cloud-patterned, home over a hill to a fold of peaceful and fleecy sleep; valleys folded in mist, green V's in the breast-hollow of a hill-range, ponds lying like shields at sunset, fishing boats blown out of shimmer...
...Chamber, fired by M. Jaspar's eloquence, frightened by the catastrophic fall of the franc,* sunk its party differences and all but unanimously voted dictatorial powers upon a man indisputably above parties, "Le bon Roi Albert, pére des Beiges." The Senate unanimously confirmed the Chamber's action...
...influx of half a million untrained workers into the factories has further slowed production, greatly lowered the pre-Revolution standard of production per man per day. On the contrary, the peasantry's production of foodstuffs per man has somewhat increased. Ergo, plentiful bushels of grain have sunk in value before scarce, manufactured products...
...sunk that putt, England would have won, for Roger Wethered had beaten Francis Ouimet, Robert Harris had outdriven and outthought Jesse Guilford, and E. F. Storey had taken the measure of the U. S. enfant terrible, Roland Mackenzie. But Mr. Hezlet of England did not know what his team mates were doing; even if he had known, the recognition of what depended on his putt could only have made him more careful. He was too careful as it was. The ball stopped two inches from the hole; the Walker Cup stayed...