Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past fortnight has witnessed a series of events which would have filled the minds of college students of a generation age with worry and dismay. Within two successive Saturdays each of the so-called Big Three has suffered defeat on the football field at the hands of what that same generation would have considered inferior colleges...
...casual visitor from Wichita or Waltham looks with ill concealed dismay upon the luxurious peace of the Farnsworth Room. To think that mere students should enjoy such cushioned learning fills his heart with envy at the mightiness of things. Jaundiced he turns from the rows of glittering vellum and retreats to the shadows of the marble colonnade...
Britishers, having just recovered from an appeal to their purses for repairing St. Paul's Cathedral, heard with dismay that Westminster Abbey is now in need of $2,500,000 for reparations...
...already disposed of one daughter and four sons by sale. The woman, in her petition, wrote that the bitter laments of her children at thus being forced to separate from their mother sent a pang through her heart more acute than any she had ever suffered. "When, to her dismay, the hard-hearted master arranged to take away the baby slave that still was suckling at her breast, her endurance was broken down completely. She supplicated and prayed, as parents pray, as you and I pray, to the gods on high when the dearest of our children lies...
...know. Now one of the worst effects of the eclipse was the confusion that it threw among hens. Some were laying: a few had laid, but the vast majority were just getting ready when darkness fell! All laying ceased. The hens, terrified, flew to their roosts in confusion and dismay; remaining in suspense the rest of the day. The egg production for Saturday was frightfully curtailed. Worse, it will take these hens several days to settle down to work again. This cannot but be a catastrophe in the years to come when the eggs that should be laid yesterday, today...