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Word: crashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Then I feel the crash as they try to stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 12/11/1919 | See Source »

...Bulldog who generalship and fighting counted. The slightest failure in any one of a half-dozen situations fully to grasp Harvard's opportunities ties or to stem the tide of the Eli attack would have turned victory in defeat. But in the crucial moments the University did not crash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT ELSE MATTER? | 11/24/1919 | See Source »

Modern civilization rests on the production of goods. A year and a half of Bolshevik regime in Russia proves that once the incentive to production, or rather to the efficient organization of production, is eliminated, civilization crumbles away, if it does not tumble down with a crash. If Europe is to have a barrier to Bolshevism in the East, that barrier should be founded, politically, on the principle of satisfied nationalism, and, economically, on the principle of peasant proprietorship and diffused property. --New York Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Foundation of Civilization. | 4/16/1919 | See Source »

...dead were just dragged to the side of the road. It was blazing hot, and you can well imagine the stench which prevailed with all of those dead men and horses around. The woods were a hive of living and mechanical apparatus, while the air howled with the crash of guns and the buzz of aeroplane motors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: START OF JULY ALLIED DRIVE DESCRIBED BY LETTERS FROM AMBULANCE CAPTAIN AND INFANTRY LIEUTENANT | 9/27/1918 | See Source »

...very bad crash because of the tremendous speed and death was in stantaneous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEEKER FELL 1,000 METRES | 11/2/1917 | See Source »

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