Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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But when the Austrians broke through at Caporetto the world held its breath, dreading disaster. Speculations as to the immediate fall of Venice were rife, and it seemed as if this apparent defeat would be the final blow to the already laboring Allied cause. The Italian soldiers reached the Piave...
Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond Robbins, of the American Red Cross Commission in Russia, speaking on "Disarmament" at a luncheon given by the Students' Liberal Club yesterday, brought home to his audience a vivid realization of the appalling disaster which would come upon civilization if there should be another war. He described...
Some Irrepressible optimists are already beginning to talk about the years to come. Admirable as their attitude may be in the abstract, it is a painful and ineffectual remedy for the depression which has seized the rest of the University. Oblivious to the future, most of the undergraduates prefer to...
Saturday's game was one of the greatest surprises in football history. Resourcefulness and a system were Harvard's principal weapons, as they proved to be weapons admirably suited to the situation. Harvard was out kicked and out-rushed, but not ourwitted. Through three periods, the Yale players fought desperately...
He has shown the indomitable faith of Rolland in life, fighting alone and unaided by influential friends, the struggle for a fair hearing. He has shown in his Rolland "the true hero who does not fight for the petty achievements of life, for success, for an idea in which all...