Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belgians agreed that the time had come for a change-almost any change. The empire was gone, the nation still bitterly divided by the fratricidal year-end strike set off by the austerity measures designed to make up for the $215 million a year that Belgium had been accustomed to...
Without Johnson the consistently weak foil team seems destined for another shutout. The foilmen lost every bout to end the Penn disaster Saturday.
Harvard's fencing team suffered an astounding 23-4 loss at the hands of Pennsylvania Saturday. The usually strong sabre squad won only three of nine bouts, two of them by All-Ivy candidate John Piel. The epee squad took but a single match and the foil team ended the...
¶ Scooting down Lake Placid's icy, one-mile Olympic run at disaster-begging speed, Italy's Eugenio Monti piloted his bobsled to its fifth straight world two-man title, flashed past the finish line so fast on his last effort (a world-record 1 min. 9.22 sec...
We have spoken much in these pages about personalities. That there was no Bismarck among them is clear. It would be too much to expect a Bismarck in every generation.... It was taken for granted that the world was marked out by Providence for exploitation by the European white man...