Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilhelm II, onetime German Emperor, received in his chateau at Doom, Holland, a correspondent of the Dagens Nyheder, Copenhagen newspaper. The onetime Kaiser, now a grey-bearded old man, has seemingly lost none of his arrogance, none of his pomposity, none of his commanding dogmatism; for, complaining, he said to the Danish newspaperman: "I could show the road to peace, but the world prefers regarding me as a scapegoat to consulting me as an adviser...
Then the spent tidal wave receded. Miles of sea wall, some of it only recently constructed, crumbled as the gurgling sea sucked it to its doom...
...Doom of the Arts College" is rather described than forecast by Herman G. James in the current New Republic. The educational problem does not lie, he says, in the elder colleges of the east. There tradition tends to preserve the atmosphere of learning, but the means of preservation, namely, limitation of enrollment, reduces the powers of these institutions to assist in solving the nationwide problem, that is, the struggle to stem the forces of vocational education before they completely efface the cultural features...
Tristram, the doom of his prophetic mother...
...even in such hinterlands as this of greater Boston, vacuum cleaners. And somewhere there are funds to purchase, if not better "goodies", at least carpet sweepers. Man, indeed, must all too soon return to dust. The Senior year at Harvard need not be such a direct threat of doom...