Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BODYING forth the shape of things to come in the dream history of Dr. Phillip Raven must have been the most delightful of tasks to Mr. H. G. Wells. In it he had the joy of the prophet Isaiah in providing a doom for all his enemies, and in peopling a heaven with his chosen. The man of science, and the engineer, and the technician will form a holy trinity to rule this heaven on earth of A.D. 2105, and all will dwell on earth happily forever after...
...Later on! Later on!" cried the Liverymen at each name, sure that London's Mayoral pack will be dealt in proper order from now until Doom's crack. Knowing that her husband was bound to win, Mrs. Collett watched beaming from a balcony beside the outgoing Lord Mayor, Sir Percy Greenaway, Stationer. Sedately the Aldermen, who form a small key group in the great body of Liverymen, retired to vote in private for the inevitable top card...
University of Southern California's President Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid returned from a visit to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II in Doom, Holland, said that the ex-Kaiser urged all German-Americans to cooperate with President Roosevelt's recovery program...
...crowd gasped at how much Mary had left as she hammered down the stretch two lengths behind Brown Berry. Ben White pulled her wide and she whaled away down the outside, closing like doom on Brown Berry. Fred Egan slapped the reins and Brown Berry began setting his hooves down faster. Running along the rail 50 yards from the finish, Brown Berry set one down on a stone no bigger than a marble. Brown Berry plunged to the ground, his muzzle sliding through the dirt, catapulting Egan against his crupper and down between the shafts. Clinging desperately to the reins...
...Some may elect to join the spineless drift toward impending doom. Most, however, will choose, to struggle, trusting that a valiant resistance may perchance postpone somewhat the evil day, and perhaps soften its disasters, and at least guarantee to themselves the self respect of fighting against fate...