Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the construction of the cavernous city aqueduct, John and Van Horn's niece, Josephine, are engaged. But she is rescued from the Titanic disaster by smooth Garrit Rantoul, promoter of the aqueduct. She marries Rantoul instead of grim, underground, somewhat sandhoggish John. John, just promoted, quits engineering and goes...
So, a fortnight ago, word leaked out that Senator Robert M. LaFollette and the insurgent Republicans are planning a filibuster against appropriation bills in the 69th Congress in order to force a special session of the 70th. Last week Senator-elect Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa added his booming voice...
"To an American, a believer in democracy, it is not a refreshing spectacle to find that a once sane nation has substituted violence for justice and has no longer the faintest vestige of a free press, and a government which imposes injury and poverty on the smallest official who speaks...
But it was to an air attack that Coach Horween's team really succumbed. Mishel and Randall took turns throwing the ball to each other, and each time it meant disaster for the Crimson. In the first quarter, after a short kick by French had given Brown the ball at...
EMERSON made his Journals his "savings-bank" for his ideas, his impressions of his contemporaries, and of the world as he saw it, as well as for his record of the events of his life. The Journals as published, however, fill ten volumes, and many a reader who has found...