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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as it is a bloomer to talk about the price of sea foods to a man whose wife has died of oyster ptomaine-a faux pas to discuss prohibition in a house recently disgraced by the tippling of its breadwinner-so it is a serious breach of taste to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faux Pas | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

The Wolverines of Michigan snarled and snapped, clawed, chewed up the Navy team, 54 to 0. "Biggest naval disaster of all time," said critics.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 9, 1925 | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

The education needed in the days before us is an education calculated to fit men to live together, to work together and to understand themselves and each other and their diverse individual, mutual, and common problems as they arise in the intricate, incessant interplay of life; to understand and utilize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/7/1925 | See Source »

The text of the article will doubtless be recorded by the President's Air Inquiry Board, and the Court cf Inquiry into the Shenandoah disaster will probably make much of it. In speaking the praises of dirigibles (which is the major function of the article), Commander Lansdowne himself apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Posthumous | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne, 74, mother of the late Commander Zachary Lansdowne of the Shenandoah; at Greenville, Ohio, of chronic heart trouble and gradual nervous collapse. Slight and frail, weighing not more than 80 pounds, Mrs. Lansdowne collapsed on the afternoon of Sept. 3, when two old neighbors broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 19, 1925 | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

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