Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, Aug. 2, p. 6, ARMY AND NAVY, "The Naval Committee last week went through the usual formality of investigating the disaster after it had happened." Check up on the word "Committee." Except for purely social functions committees are rarely appointed in the Navy. . . .
3) That Captain Otto C. Dowling, who was in command at Lake Denmark, be awarded the D. S. C.: that the Navy Cross be awarded posthumously to designated men of the Navy and Marine Corps who lost their lives in the disaster; that the Navy Cross be awarded to Private...
A century ago the hamlet of Birkenhead boasted some 50 inhabitants, rustics who scratched their polls in wonder at the great steamers plying to Liverpool, just across the River Mersey. Last week scholars of the Birkenhead School, all conscious that their potent industrial city now numbers over 100,000 souls...
Sitting where they could feel the influence of local disturbances and color, a Naval Committee last week went through the usual formality of investigating a disaster after it has happened. At Dover, N. J., where the Naval Arsenal suddenly exploded three weeks ago when struck by lightning (TIME, July 19...
Meanwhile up in Peekskill near the Bear Mountain Bridge across the Hudson the gentry shiver each night as they prepare to go to bed. They fear a repetition of the Dover disaster from the Navy arsenal at lona Island, a mile away. Perhaps Manhattan citizens tremble as they recall the...