Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devastated East picked itself up, dried itself off, began burying its dead, Harry Hopkins flew to join the six New England Governors in Boston. To $500,000 from the Red Cross he added the promise of "unlimited funds" and 100,000 workers from WPA. Disaster Loan Corp. (subsidiary of RFC) offered rehabilitation loans. After five days, some communities were still isolated, train service had not been restored on the full New York-to-Boston run, the known dead had passed 600, the estimated damage half a billion dollars...
...below), and only asks the League of Nations to send a commission to Spain to verify this fact. The cautious Assembly did not at once appoint the commission requested by Dr. Negrin, but he was cheered for having struck a purely idealistic note "proving that the League is not dead...
...heeded. To celebrate this "peace" in true Arab fashion, the two chieftains and their henchmen roasted a sheep and brewed a kettle of black Arab coffee. Just when huge hunks of mutton were being devoured, British bombers appeared and the party scattered. The rebels put their losses at three dead, six wounded, guffawed heartily when British aviators reported Arab casualties...
...Premier of Royalist Spain; in Burgos. When, few months before Primo de Rivera's 1923 coup, he was publicly asked whether a military clique was planning to take over the Government, the Marqués replied: "If it were true they would have to pass over my dead body." Thereafter friends & enemies alike called him "The Corpse...
...academic schedule a certain number of hours which he will waste each day. He may study in those hours, but will learn things he will never use and promptly forget. But this waste has a value; it shows him something dull or worthless or leads to a dead end. As Nock said further in the same article: "Useless knowledge . . . gains value only as it is forgotten. . . . So let no one be fazed by his inability to accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part of his Harvard education is realizing that he cannot use every minute to a positive advantage...