Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand miles travelled in the air, two hundred and fifteen passengers carried, without an accident of any kind, do more than refute the dire predictions of those who foresaw a succession of funerals in the path of the student aviators. It points to a future of invaluable training and experience; it sets an example which may have worthy and far-reaching consequences. The furore created by a General Mitchell dies down, leaving aviation in the United States apparently where it was before; the interest of undergraduate airmen continues and produces results...
...into entering and supporting the new "Big Coalition Cabinet" of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx (TIME, Feb. 7), there stepped up to shoulder the weighty Portfolio of Finance a Roman Catholic Centrist then internationally little known, Dr. Heinrich Koehler. Immediately he became famed by uttering early, late and often the most dire and pessimistic warnings that Germany would not for long be able to meet her scheduled payments under the Dawes Plan. Yet when Dr. Koehler presented his first Budget, not even his inveterate pessimism could becloud several cheerful facts...
...will get the Chinese trade which Britain may lose? Japan and France want it. Therefore, the French avoided every clash with Chinese last week; and only as a matter of dire necessity did some Japanese Marines at Hankow unlimber their machine guns to disperse a Chinese mob which attempted to loot the Japanese concession there. Two Chinese were killed; but if Baron Shidehara can manage it, their blood will not be the beginning of red freshets on Japanese steel...
...subject "Bootleggery" receives official recognition in art for the first time with several pictures tracing the trail of unconstitutionally of thirst through the speakeasy, the gin party, the hangover, and on to the dire eventuality, Bellevue Hospital...
...Frederick Mills, Chairman of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co. Ltd., issued a final dire statement: "Nineteen bodies have been recovered. The gas has been pumped out and rescue work is going on; but I can see no hope that the 32 men still trapped underground remain alive...