Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island." Before the storm pounded her to pieces, passengers and crew, thankful to be alive, recovered bit by bit stores and cargo-burying the latter deep in the coral sand. But their thankfulness turned to horror as the most intensive search produced no fresh water. Deciding to leave this dread, lonesome spot, they labored for three weeks to repair & supply longboat and gig salvaged from the wreck. Twenty-two set out in the 22-ft. boat; eight went with Captain Tobias in his even smaller gig. Overcrowded from the start there was scant room for the severely rationed water...
...people. They love-they laugh. They have codes of honor. They enjoy life just as do we. They have babies. They have their worries and their joys. . . . TOMORROW-Let's go to church and pray for them. Let's pray God to stop the march of that dread monster...
...William James and Charles Horace Mayo, best-known U. S. medical team, dread publicity. It hurts business at their expensive clinic in remote Rochester, Minn, where they and the 400 doctors whom they employ treat more than 700 new sick people every day and where in a few weeks they expect to work on their 1,000,000th patient. Essentially the Mayo brothers care little for wealth. Although they charge every patient precisely according to national credit agencies' reports, one fourth of the Mayo patients are worth nothing and pay no fees. The Mayo Clinic is to be donated...
...Europe. There have been problems and disturbances of our own, of course,--problems grave enough to produce a tension in the most serene of temperaments. But the tension in the last few years has certainly been heightened by the emotions generated in our collective psyche by the horror and dread of what we have seen in Europe...
...breakfast, alone, in a far corner of the dining-room, hidden by the eager, gossipping headlines of my newspaper from the stricken faces of my fellows bowed down by the dread anticipation of today's examinations. The war half over for me, with two examinations passed and almost forgotten and two waiting several days hence. Across my mind a quick flash of business cycles, wage differentials, currency restrictions, and then the determinations to forget these dolorous tasks for yet another day until Cambridge may become less like the Belgian Congo and more like Cambridge...