Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elizabeth's favor was more than a little hampering to Ralegh. While he had it. she refused to let him endanger his precious skin. While less valued sailors were chivying Spain's great Armada to its doom. Ralegh was kept chafing in London. When Sir Richard Grenville sailed on his fatal raid against the Azores, Ralegh was recalled at the last minute. But Ralegh lost Elizabeth's favor for good when she discovered his secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic...
Less than two years ago U. S. businessmen were dolefully shaking their heads over "profitless prosperity" and gravely predicting the imminent doom of the profit system. Aside from a general animosity toward the New Deal, the cause of this talk was the tendency for costs to rise faster than sales, so that many a company was reporting smaller profits on greater volume of business. It was merely a matter of time before increasing sales would outstrip increasing expenses, thereby cutting the cost of each unit they produced. Last week the return of profitable prosperity was conspicuously evident in at least...
...nodded his head, sent Pickett and some 7,000 men across the open fields to their hopeless assault. That charge, whose last thin waves lapped up through the Union centre, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The officer whose nod sent Pickett's column to its doom was General James Longstreet. Around his burly figure the battle-smoke of partisan controversy has hung thick ever since. Did Longstreet lose the battle that lost the South the Civil War? Many a Southerner, many a Northerner, has answered yes. Biographers Eckenrode and Conrad, in what is the first life...
...drive for winter relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly newspaper of Doom, The Netherlands, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern inserted an advertisement thanking the world Press for its interest in his 77th birthday...
...Voice of Doom: And the debts, like the sins of the fathers, shall be visited upon the children; aye, even unto the third and fourth generations! (Music...