Word: cassandra
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...half years ago Parliament, hoping that England would rule the winds as she ruled the waves, heard a Cassandra hoot: "The R-33 flew 800 hours and burst. The R-34, which flew across the Atlantic, afterward burst. The R-35 burst when inflated. The R-36 flew 397 hours and burst. The R-37 was never completed. The R-38 flew seventy hours and burst over Hull in August 1921, with a heavy loss of life. The R39 was unfinished. The R-40 flew seventy-three hours and burst." Those airships had cost England $12,000,000, had flown...
...male Cassandra does not say that man "must study so that be can improve living." He would be more likely to assume that there was no use in studying, because living could not be improved. Yet that is what Dr. Meiklejohn said, and that is what you called...
...disarmament conference. Undergraduate publications in practically all American colleges bear witness to an interest in other problems of national and world significance. If in the face of these facts Dr. Meiklejohn still insists on the indifference of the students, he will run the risk of becoming a male Cassandra, prophet only of evil...
...numerous fruitless battles with the Soviet forces, between Dec. 18, 1918, and Aug. 19, 1919, the British lost twelve other ships: the light cruiser Cassandra, the mine carriers Victoria, Verulam, Gentian and Myrtle, and seven torpedo cutters...
Married. Alexander Johnston Cassatt, grandson of socially famed Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer, and the late Pennsylvania Railroad president, Alexander J. Cassatt of Philadelphia; and Cassandra Morris Stewart, debutante of last season; in Baltimore...