Word: doom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aviators disappear in mid-ocean, and there is no great surprise, no intense shock, for the air is so new a field that man is still a little surprised at being able to fly. But when a coastal steamer meets doom on its accustomed journey, or when a flood destroys a valley, the old elements laugh at the real impotence of humanity. The claims of chemical rain-makers and cloud-destroyers have so far met with failure as complete as that of learns. Snow, rain, wind can still toy with man, much as in those days; the superman who rules...
...defeat was Caporetto (1917). Never can the fact be lived down that on that field some 265,000 Italians were taken prisoner with more than 3,000 guns. Flushed with victory, the eagles of Habsburg and Hohenzollern screeched the impending doom of Italy...
...McKillip stated that operating on the tail of a horse and the immediate application of the tail-set was extremely painful for at least 36 hours. This, in itself, ought to be enough to spell its doom. He said that horses became accustomed to the constant wearing of the tail-set afterward, but as a "Defender of Animals" wrote me today: "I presume it is on the same theory that, if one hangs long enough, one must necessarily become used...
...night when watchdogs bark at a thought, a dream, waking farmers to a remembrance of grief, there winds through Manhattan the sound of boat horns. To those who grope for sleep in the darkness before dawn, they are hounds baying a gigantic sorrow, whining the threat of a remote doom. In the morning, sharp black noses sniff a zigzag scent across the harbor down the Hudson; the horns make cheerful yappings that in the dark, were the voices of a nightmare...
...BRIGHT DOOM-John Hall Wheelock-Scribner ($2). Poet Wheelock has been so often patted for his "ecstasy," that now he writes such vague, silly, categories as this...