Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost 60 years since I experienced the jubilation which swept the whole German people upon achievement of unity-the occasion of the founding of the Reich. I cannot believe that this spirit has vanished and yielded to permanent political and domestic discord. Despite and because of the present distress we must come to our senses and again become an entity with the thought 'Deutschland Uber Attes...
...Unemployment amounting to distress is concentrated in twelve states.* The authorities in the remaining 36 states indicate only normal seasonal unemployment...
...complained of a toothache. The dentist found an ulcerated molar, extracted it. As Justice Sanford started to get up an attack of vertigo sent him sprawling to the floor. Alarmed, the dentist called a physician who administered a hypodermic stimulant which failed to relieve the judge's mortal distress. Unconscious, Justice Sanford was carried to his home on Connecticut Avenue. There, before noon, he died of acute uremic poisoning.* Five hours later, three blocks away, died William Howard Taft who was more responsible than any other for Mr. Sanford's appointment to the Supreme Court...
...group of Harvard undergraduates, reported to be in dire distress financially through the collapse of the stock market last fall, have placed on sale on Harvard Square a novelty which, as one of its admittedly ingenious authors said last night, "should develop into the biggest and most hilarious fad of 1930". This novelty, which may or may not find a market among Harvard students, is a card bearing in an appropriately apologetic form, a list of social sins...