Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which if they be true at all are too true to need repeating--but with a dire prediction of the consequences should America engage in a war with England. That it would be a large, expensive, and spectacular war goes without saying; Mr. Tomlinson, however, predicts a complete world breakdown as an inevitable result, a breakdown which would leave the United States with no market for its commerce, and hence with a barren and fatal victory...
...automobile sirens shrieked in his ears. Mayor J. S. Smith congratulated him. Then for dinner, he was rushed to a banquet given in honor of the two flyers. Called upon for a speech, Mr. Schlee rose, said: "There seems to be a general misconception . . ." and collapsed. Friends attributed the breakdown to nervous strain. Said full-page newspaper advertisements:-"Detroit is proud of the Pride of Detroit and its Intrepid Pilots-Ed Schlee and Billy Brock...
What probable effect will be produced upon the world by the total breakdown in Geneva last week of the U. S.-British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley? Which government was chiefly to blame? Were precautions neglected at the start, which, if taken, might have greatly fostered success...
Died. Dr. Garrett Droppers, 67, onetime (1914-20) U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro, professor emeritus of political economy at Williams College; following a nervous breakdown and paralytic stroke; in Williamstown, Mass...
...author sees the origin of the American mind in the disintegration of European culture following the breakdown of the mediaeval ethos. Before leaving the mother country, the New England colonist, in the intensity of his Protestantism, had already rejected the historic outcome of Christianity, and to a large extent the ideals and modes of life which had gone with it. Three thousand miles of ocean merely made his disassociation from the past more permanent. The disassociated colonist, in turn, produced the pioneer, who renouncing even the fragments of European culture remaining on the sea-board sought an outlet...