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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was San Francisco's worst quake since 1906, but seismologists reported that it hit only 5.5 on the Richter scale, just one-thousandth as strong as the big 1906 disaster. Property damage-broken windows, cracked walls, crumbled brickwork -reached into the millions of dollars. But there were no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Big Shrug | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

While the primrose path for their heroines leads inevitably to disaster and thence to New Understanding, the passion pulps themselves are making a heap of tin out of sin. In the last ten years, while the magazine ranks have been riddled by casualties, only two confessional slicks have gone under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tin from Sin | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

Since the News Department is always spiriting away our microphones, tape recorders, and other broadcast equipment, careful scheduling is required to assure that this equipment is available at the specified time. But all the foregoing efforts are to no avail if our electronic equipment, most of which is turned on...

Author: By Robert C. Valtz, | Title: From the Station Manager... | 3/23/1957 | See Source »

Woman of Rome, contrary to the Brattle's poor-taste ads, is no frolicking bedroom comedy. It is of the school of Italian neo-realism which proclaims that this is the worst of all possible worlds, and with Ecclesiastes that the greatest disaster in a man's life is the...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Woman of Rome | 3/19/1957 | See Source »

Student donations make up a large part of a Harvard blood bank in which all undergraduates have "unlimited credit." In addition, the Bank contributes blood to Boston hospitals, particularly in times of natural disaster or other emergencies.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Seeks 650 Donors in Blood Drive This Week | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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