Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"But these misfortunes are not evident. It is an English characteristic to 'face the music' and take things as they come without being too much perturbed. There is no brooding over the disaster, as in Latin countries; the English mind is always looking up to push forward. As a natural...
The continuance of that policy was marked in the appointment of a commission of nine to look into the air policies of the U. S. recently brought onto the controversial stage by the Shenandoah disaster and Colonel Mitchell's charges.
German. Dr. Hugo Eckener, famed Zeppelin expert, failed miserably in an attempt to take up a collection among patriotic Germans for the purpose of building a Zeppelin and beating Amundsen to the pole. The Shenandoah disaster (TIME, Sept. 14, AERONAUTICS) is said to have made many a German leery of...
When the Shenandoah, disemboweled like a silver minnow, fell into the Ohio valley, every newspaper in the U. S.-with one exception-shrieked in huge disaster headlines the record of that happening. Not since election day had such exclamatory "spreads" appeared on front pages. But one newspaper realized that constraint...
And this concession, slight as it is, is denied Freshmen. Yale evidently entertains suspicions of all young men who have not been inoculated against moral disaster by a year of her special brand of religious nursing. "The incoming Freshmen," says the report, "will still be required to attend every day...