Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With only a few exceptions the survivors of the disaster and the Government experts seemed agreed that the wreck of the ship was due to excessive wind stresses in the heart of a storm. The principal other theory advanced was that one or more of the gas cells of the...
In a town of Rhenish Bavaria one Sara bore to one Lazarus Straus three sons. The first-born he named Isidore; the second he named Nathan; the youngest, Oscar Solomen. Isidore, after distinguished years as merchant, banker and Congressman, lost his life, a hero, in the Titanic disaster. Nathan is...
Two days before she was to appear before the court of inquiry into the causes of the Shenandoah disaster, Captain Paul Foley, U.S.N., Judge Advocate of the Court of Inquiry, called on her and asked her what she was going to testify-in fact requested her to "rehearse the entire...
Before an audience of Plymouth women, the Viscountess Astor fulminated against submarines in general. Apropos of the disaster said she: "I would go around the world lecturing five times over if I thought I could do anything to persuade the nations of the world to abandon submarines and poison gas...
Three years ago he stated that Santa Barbara would be shaken. Last summer that prophecy was fulfilled (TIME, July 6). The earthquake was purely local, and failed to relieve the general strain which pulls at the terrain from Elsinore, to San Gabriel, between which, at an angle, lies Los Angeles...