Word: doom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dramatic career of Lord Dansany covers a period of eight years, in which he has produced among other plays "The Gods of the Mountain," "A Night in an Inn," "King Argimines," and "The Golden Doom...
...mercenary hordes of Lampy, driven to doom by their officers, were mowed down by the CRIMSON crew and at the end of the contest the score board read: CRIMSON 5, Lampoon 4. All of the CRIMSON runs were earned; the Lampoon quota was merely lent to them for the afternoon by its generous opponents. From the moment when the Lampoon twirler pitched over the backstop for the first strike of the afternoon, the outcome was never in doubt. The CRIMSON infield was absolutely tight, and Lampy's punch was of no avail. The barrage of hits from CRIMSON bats gave...
Petitions have long since lost their strength in moving the regulated powers, and the reformer, crying incessantly to heaven for the fulfillment of his desire, ultimately loses his breath and ends with whispering pathos and a cracked voice dying into silence. Yet even at the certain doom of the reformer, again we raise our voice to query, not defiantly nor boisterously, but humbly, why Sunday sports are still barred at the University...
...question of food, once academic and distant, has become intensely acute. Through the warning voice of Mr. Hoover, pronouncing the doom of starvation for the world, the people have come to understand that abundant sustenance for life is not a purely natural good, springing without labor from the ground. Such understanding was necessary to check the wastefulness and the shortsightedness which have gone with our opulence. We have, as is clearly shown, profited by the understanding...
...promise that Sodom would be saved for the sake of ten righteous. The ten righteous were not found, and Sodom perished. We must expect that we--if we are Sodom, and the cowardly are righteous--will also perish, unsaved by our ten or so righteous. We may bear our doom gladly, if we first get rid or the righteous...