Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Sunday is approaching, and all the roadside inns are sending out hurry calls for fowl. The King of the barnyard senses impending disaster from the look on the farmer's face. He loses his swagger and droops off in a corner. A turkey with an understanding heart remarks sympathetically...
But in the third quarter the Princeton team seemed to change entirely. The speed, precision and skill of the Tigers in open field work first became a genuine menace. They had tried line plays and various shift formations without success and opened up their play in desperation. Princeton's strength...
Today's announcement from the H. A. A. brings to a head dissatisfaction which has been festering for several years and which found expression last fall to no effect. No one underestimates the thankless work of assigning big-game tickets, trying to fit 35,000 people into 29,500 seats...
More and more the campaign centers in a discussion of economy which has been caught up in characteristic newspaper fashion as "The One Big Issue". Following President Harding's veto of the bonus comes the statement concerning finances by Under Secretary of the Treasury Gilbert. While additional taxes will spell...
"Dead in Smyrna Put at 250,000" was the newspaper announcement based on the cabled report of Mark O. Prentiss of the American Near East Relief. Yet the people of this country have not been particularly interested; most of them have, and are, giving more attention to lurid accounts of...