Word: cataclysms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the Memphis Appeals were bought from the receivers by James Thomas Hammond Jr., publisher of Hearst's Detroit Times. The stolid, conservative Commercial Appeal (''Largest Circulation in the South"-111,000), is so deeply rooted in affairs of the South that even the Lea-Caldwell cataclysm failed to shake it. Good-looking Publisher Hammond, 40, was back on home soil. He had been brought up in Tennessee, got to be a bank vice president in Arkansas whence he was hired in 1922 by Lord & Taylor. Manhattan department store, as its treasurer. Five years later he became...
DOCUMENTS OF MURDER-T. C. H. Jacobs-Macaulay ($2). Fiend Bronkhorst, master spy, kills casually thrice a day. Scotland Yard and Secret Service, hand in hand, win through in time to prevent world cataclysm...
...emergency arise he will exert himself as much as necessary, and all over the world there are proofs of the splendid worth of the English Public School Boy in an emergency. But many of them seem to go through life waiting, before they will exert themselves, for a cataclysm which never arises. Cataclysms are rare. The need for hard work is constant...
...crust either from subsurface erosion or (as many now hold) a result of the gravital pull of the sun and moon. Though Vesuvius had been in mild eruption for a fortnight before last week's quake, Italy's greatest seismologist, Professor Giovanni Agamennone, insisted that last week's cataclysm belonged to the latter class...
...Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II began with the Flood, ended with the World War. Cosmos III, begun in 1914, will end in 2874, when "The Kingdom of God" will fill the whole world. An erroneous prophecy that the year 1928 would provide a cataclysm- ''Nations will battle; the dead will be dung on the earth"-upset considerably the Bible Students' calculations, but the major tenets of their belief are as yet unshaken...