Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In April, 1912, nobody followed icebergs, which drifted free, unchaperoned. One drifted into the liner Titanic, then the pride of the White Star Line. The Titanic sank with 1,513 people. Now, in April, 1927, with transatlantic travel reaching its spring height, with glacier-born icebergs drifting busily south, the...
Disregarding the superstition which dictates early disaster to the medalist, Mr. Voight proceeded to play through the tournament proper in form highly satisfactory to himself. In the finals he met Eugene Homans, 18, Englewood, N. J., schoolboy; triumphed, 4 and 2; added the name of Voight to the list of...
To sincere Christian workers and missionaries the sacking of their homes in Nanking which was most extensive last week, seemed only an essentially minor disaster in the wreck of their spiritual work. The typical Christian missionary places his loyalty to China second only to that for his homeland; and his...
During the week famed Japanese seismologist Dr. Shinichi Kunitomi fairly beamed upon correspondents as he said: "We were very fortunate this time. The amplitude of the quake was such as to indicate a national catastrophe, but fortunately the centre of the earth movement was ten miles out at sea, off...
"I say, and I will repeat," shouted Mr. Jones, "that all the crocodile tears shed over this disaster by the Government are sheer hypocrisy. . . . The visit of the Prime Minister with a tearful sop to men on whom the Government has imposed the eight-hour day was sheer effrontery!"