Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Written by an angry God with the scenery set by the terrible hand of , destiny. Produced By Necessity. Staged By Fear. Adapted By Disaster. Enacted By 50,000 Human Beings and Half Million Beasts on the Frozen Paths of a Forgotten World Withered by the Blasts of a Sun That...
¶ Calvin Coolidge, Honorary President of the American Red Cross, telegraphed to John Barton Payne, Chairman of the organization, saying: "Information has reached me of the disaster [see SCIENCE] that has overtaken a portion of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
*The greatest mining disaster occurred in 1909 at the Radbon mine, in which 341 men perished. ,,
A dull and dirty entertainment, a laborious and offensive disaster. (P. 16, col. 1.)
Died. General Alexei Nikolaevitch Kuropatkin, 76, famed commander of the main Russian army in the Russo-Japanese War, until the disaster of Mukden; at Shemshurino, Russian.