Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A faint shudder ran through the ranks of the unenlightened when the Reading Period would be repeated in the high and far off times when Seniors would be wearing gowns and Yard concerts were the vogue for Brattle Street. But a whisper followed and as it ran, smoothed the ruffled...
3) The most plausible cause of the disaster was the dam itself. "It is admitted," said Coroner Frank A. Nance of Los Angeles, "that the dam was not anchored to hard rock. One end was fastened to shale and the other to a conglomerate formation." Water had gradually seeped into...
The Investigations. Eight investigations to fix the blame for the disaster were under way last week, by state, county and city authorities. Mayor George E. Cryer of Los Angeles said: "Los Angeles cannot restore the lives lost, but the damages should be paid. . . . We of Los Angeles must face the...
The 12,000 drafted soldiers are not, fortunately, ever allowed an access to the stage; there are no mob scenes or speeches from the window. But the sound of the soldiers' voices is heard and their fifers play gay tunes in the expectation of disaster. A sputter of rockets...
Like all its inhabitants and all its swift and luminous companions, this earth must discover an eventual disaster. How the disaster will arrive, and when, is a matter for astronomers to ponder. Dr. James Hopwood Jeans, famed British astronomer, Secretary of the Royal Society, pondered; last week, in London, he...