Word: deadness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chile's third largest city, 70% of the buildings were on the ground. Chillán, hardest hit, looked from the air like a mammoth anthill overturned. Its church spires and jagged masonry protruded through the debris. Its surviving residents scrabbled in the ruins for the dead and injured. In the countryside, wide fissures rent the fields, irrigation canals were broken, coal mines caved...
...still impossible to count all dead and injured this week. But as broken bodies were pried from the ruins and missing persons checked, the best figures set the toll at 50,000 dead, 60,000 injured, more than 700,000 homeless. It was the highest casualty list in any South American disaster...
...dead eddy of time after the War, a young Dutch ex-divinity student and soldier named Pieter Antonie Laurusse van Paassen found himself in Canada bouncing from job to job. He wrapped department store parcels, peddled magazines, delivered milk, fired locomotives, collected streetcar fares, worked on a blasting gang in gold mines of the Big Dome. Every time he tried a new job, he quickly decided he had missed his calling. Finally, by shutting his eyes and putting his finger down on a list of vocations ranging from accountant to sausage maker, he picked what proved a relatively permanent...
Muddle No. 3: Captain Marmaduke R. Alderson had lost three engines and the fourth was wheezing for lack of fuel when he finally landed, virtually dead-stick. With no power to smooth out her landing the Cavalier struck heavily on the crest of a mountainous wave, bashed in her hull...
They Made Me a Criminal (John Garfield, Gloria Dickson, Dead End Kids; TIME...