Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Numerous European insurance firms listed as "acts of God" the remarkable series of disasters, chiefly due to floods, which have caused incalculable damage throughout Europe during the past fortnight (TIME, Jan. 11). The flood situation threw immense numbers of workers out of employment, and caused acute distress throughout communities along almost every river of note in Europe. New developments...
...orders from Angora to massacre them. . . . They are a home-loving people, never rebelled, and were the backbone of Kurdish wealth. . . . All idea of voluntary emigration on their part must be excluded. The mere fact that they arrived at Irak and are still arriving daily in the utmost physical distress and completely without resources proves beyond doubt or dispute that they were compelled to abandon their villages by force and violence...
...enslaved Germany. We ourselves are marching with big strides toward financial dependency to American capital. . . . From the beginning of the War I watched closely the purchases France made in the United States. . . . With what suppressed anger did I not analyze those veritably usurious contracts which America, profiting by our distress, imposed upon us. ... Does the United States really require the 75,000,000,000 francs they are asking us to pay? Every one knows they are almost suffocating beneath the weight of gold, as if paralyzed by their own immense fortune. . . . Our ally's demands are absolutely incompatible with...
Naturally Radcliffe students are distressed at this scurrilous, not to say libelous, attack upon their personal charms. And the CRIMSON which makes it part of its policy to assist damsels in distress at all times, and to get the Lampoon whenever possible, has given to indignant Radcliffe the Crime Column of this Thursday, in which to clear themselves in the eyes of the world...
...only comment made by Donald Murchie '28, when he was told that a message apparently coming from five persons in distress on the schooner Norka had been found on the shore of Martha's Vineyard. The message, a call for help which was dated August second and was scratched with a nail on a block of wood, asked that Murchie be notified...