Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the bombs reached New York, dress, millinery, fur and cloak & suit manufacturers were in despair. Chemists assured them that the valerianate had to dissipate itself naturally, that there was no known way of neutralizing or destroying its odor. That meant they had to wait some six months before their stinking factories or showrooms became habitable again. Worst of all, even after leaving garments the smell came back on damp days...
...counter-like structure in the furthest recesses of the apartment. Here was conveyed to each, by the attendant, what must have been in the nature of a sentence, for each was perceived either to startle and grow pale, or to turn away with a countenance of tragick despair, or to depart bearing bundles the possession of which seemed to render him no happier than before...
...reluctant Senate into completely reversing itself on the issue of cutting half a billion francs ($19,800,000) from expenditures for national defense. Fortnight ago crusty Senate oldsters rejected this cut 168 to 129. Last week they passed it 180 to 118-amid furious gesticulations and sighs of despair from the French General Staff...
...seize Jehol.* Meantime tramp, tramp, relentlessly down from Manchuria pressed Japanese soldiers numbering 60,000 at most. They were reinforced by 40,000 Manchurian (Chinese) mercenaries, but their weapons were those of the Machine Age. Tensely China, the world's most populous nation, quivered between ardor and despair...
...With the immediate future of literature, however, we may justly concern ourselves, but of this we need not despair. We should not demand a Shakespeare every ten years; we should be grateful to have one Shakespeare. The present is, undoubtedly, a period of change, and the forms of literature are changing with everything else. There is a rapid replacement of literary generations, every one of which brings something new to the standards and styles which we have already...