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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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In an article such as this I can give no idea of the tremendous excitement which such races arouse. Their result is always in doubt. A "crab", or still worse, bad coxing may spell disaster; a dogged stroke in the boat ahead may stave off defeat with the enemy prow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Bumping Races Require Fine Judgment on Part of Cox--Davison Scholar Writes of Oxford Crew Regattas | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

Most curious of all is the rule that every car must carry a green light to identify the driver as a student. Such a ruling, it adopted at Harvard, would prevent the law from molesting any of the town as long as the gown was accessible. But a financial panic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEARING OF THE GREEN | 11/17/1927 | See Source »

Vassar rating of Cambridge being rushed to scene of disaster. Molly Thatcher.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TO PUBLISH FAIR SEX'S CRITIQUE OF HARVARD | 11/15/1927 | See Source »

MY HEART AND MY FLESH-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). The Story. Theodosia Bell "was delicately modeled with strong slender limbs, swift in a game, quick-witted at play. Her red-brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Heart & Flesh | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

That night, the legends of the sea, so long tamed, so long unremembered except in the late talk at coast town barrooms, leapt up out of the racing mountains of the bay. A tremendous wind walked through the black towers of the rain, a hungry foam covered the teeth of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Irish Coast | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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