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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Impartial reports from the great industrial area show no slackening of German resistance, although the French have now " dug themselves in " and are able to extract coal from the mine heads in paying quantities. The most ghastly act of sabotage by the Germans was the blowing up of a Belgian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RUHR: Europe and Reparations | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

An airplane in flight was refuelled at San Diego for the first time in the history of aviation. A quartet of Army officers, after much practice, succeeded in passing a fresh supply of gasoline from one plane to another flying forty feet below at the same speed of 90 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Garage | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

The Barling Bomber is being assembled by the Army Air Service at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. It has a wing spread of 120 feet, a height of 28 feet, measures 65 feet from nose to tail. Fully loaded, the bomber weighs 20 tons, is propelled by six Liberty motors with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: World's Largest Plane | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

Next came an illustrated lecture by Colonel B. K. Eustace, noted British sportsman, who, on November 21, described his own experiences in the jungle with the aid of several reels of motion picture film. A week later Mr. B. L. Brasol, former municipal attorney of Petrograd, portrayed the dangers toward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INNOVATIONS MARK YEAR'S ACTIVITIES AT UNION | 6/13/1923 | See Source »

The vision of H. G. Wells?it spells disaster.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 11, 1923 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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