Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner had Red Lowman sunk a foul shot for Harvard at the opening of the second half than Dartmouth began a scoring streak that placed them ahead 36-21 in ten minutes of play...
...rounded Denmark there were several false alarms about Japanese torpedo boats. In the North Sea some British fishing smacks were mistaken in the darkness for enemy destroyers. In a wild outburst of Russian firing the cruiser Aurora was hit (luckily by duds) and several of the fishing boats sunk with their hapless crews. In the excitement no one stopped to pick up survivors. That hysterical episode quickly became a diplomatic incident of grave importance; only after thoroughgoing apologies and explanations was the Baltic Fleet allowed to proceed...
...trying only to escape. Till midnight they were harried by torpedo attacks. Next morning brought the main Japanese fleet again to mop up the survivors. By then most of the Russian ships had had enough, struck their colors. Rozhestvensky had been carried off the burning wreck of the Suvoroff-sunk by torpedoes shortly afterwards-to a destroyer, the Buinyi. Next day he was transferred to the destroyer Bedovyi which surrendered to a Japanese destroyer, whose commander grinned and hissed with delight when he saw what he had captured...
...water, almost a foot above the record level, Army engineers decided to use force to disband armed farmers who were preventing them from blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to route floodwaters through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres of rich Greene County were flooded. Army Engineers tried to save the St. Francis River levees in Missouri...
...along the lines on which George V ran them. He was riding in sombre Daimlers and Lanchesters and not in slick American cars. He had even changed his policy about yacht racing to meet popular demands. When George V died his will instructed that his yacht Britannia should be sunk unless one of his sons wanted to race it. All four sons, including the present King, turned this offer down and the Britannia was sunk (TIME, July 20). George VI, however, lately revealed he is willing now to be a "Sailor King" like his father, is expected to take...