Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis' speech was dignified, scholarly, slightly trite. His delivery was frequently impeded by a choking cough. He divided Republican rule into three eras ?"Dark Betrayal'' (1920-24), "Smug Self-Complacency" (1924-29), "Wild Dismay...
Before 1901 the University took no official interest in the physical or mental welfare of the undergraduate body. At that time it first provided a physician who could be summoned to students' rooms, much to the dismay of the medical profession in Cambridge. In 1901 James Alexander Stillman '96 gave the present infirmary, stipulating only that "it should be made as perfect as was possible." In the succeeding years the medical staff was increased, an operating room was installed in Stillman, six years ago the services of a surgeon were acquired; eye, skin, and dental clinics have been instituted; corrective...
...motor-bike-riding young clerk who had been to a third-rate "public school" (U. S.: private), their attraction was mutual and sudden. They married, on very little a week, soon moved into a jerrybuilt bungalow they could not really afford. Then things began to happen. Susan, to her dismay, found she was going to have a baby. Dick lost his job. Payments on the furniture, the rent, were overdue. The baby was born prematurely, stillborn. Then Manufacturer Bulgin, villain in tycoon's clothing, an unsuccessful suitor for Susan's hand, rescued them by giving Dick...
Once the House got moving, it clicked off legislation at top speed. Much to the loud dismay of voteless Washingtonians, it approved proposals by Michigan's Mapes for a District of Columbia tax on incomes and increases in the gasoline and estate levies. It whirled through the Moratorium in eight hours (see col. 3). It passed a measure appropriating $203,000,000 for bonus loans, $120,000 for additional employment agencies. It okayed the $100,000,000 capital increase for the Federal Land Banks after voting down (190-to-165) a general farm moratorium amendment...
...Downing's racehorse Northdrift: the November Handicap, at Manchester, England, on a muddy track and in a fog so thick that no one except the jockeys saw the middle of the race. To the dismay of speculators in the $10,000,000 Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, the Aga Khan withdrew his favorite, Ut Majeur, just before the start, because he thought Ut Majeur's weight handicap, 43 lb. greater than Northdrift's, was too much for a slippery track...