Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consist of several essay questions in which the candidates will be asked to identify and give the significance of important events of the preceding year; while the second will be made up of a number of fact questions. Short essays on such topics as exploration in the Antarctic, the aftermath of the stock market crash, and dictatorship in European policies were asked for last year: in the fact quiz, the candidates had to identify and bring out the part played in current news of such figures as Mme. Curie, Leon Daudet, and Ortiz Rubio as well as to answer briefly...
...Every fact which has since come to light, every development of the past decade, has confirmed my conviction that the temporary checks which the war method achieves are dearly paid for by the avalanche of loss which overwhelms both vanquished and victors in the aftermath." -Professor Bruce Curry, Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan...
Equally small proportions of disaster would be found in North Carolina where, supposedly because of real estate deflation, 16 banks with $26,103,000 in deposits failed and in Indiana where eight banks with $4,743,000 failed as an aftermath of the Louisville tempest...
More interesting was the question of how much could be saved for the entire U. S. The Tennessee crisis was reaching into other States. Unchecked, it would have been much worse. Only unselfish foresight on the part of conservative bankers made possible the quick action which stemmed the aftermath of Rogers Clark Caldwell's debacle...
...mine. First to arrive manned the shaft elevators, went down into darkness. Tense minutes passed before they brought up more than 100 frightened, lucky men who had been near enough the shaft to race away from gaseous Death. Soon the fatal "black damp,"* cause and aftermath of most coalmine explosions, rushed up into the wooden shed, drove rescuers back gasping. They were frantic, unorganized. The company's president, William Ewing Tytus, its vice president, P. A. Coen and the mine's superintendent, Walter Hayden, were all down there, a mile and a half along the rocky channels from...