Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voicing his relief at his success as a field-marshal in beating off and vanquishing, at least for a time, the armies of war lords opposed to his regime (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq). Whewed he: "The recent upheaval against our Government was the greatest yet experienced. Our fate hung by a single hair. What was this hair? The loyalty and bravery of our officers and men, whose courage never faltered! Again they met the flood and carried us to firm ground." (Floods are the most frequent catastrophe in China, others scarcely less frequent being droughts and plagues...
...reporter. Said he: "The wanderer was not a large deer, as deer go. It had a manner that plainly showed it expected very little from life", According to the Times, the deer was small, had no antlers. The story spoke of children and Santa Claus. The deer's fate was tragic; a policeman encountered it, shot seven times, killed...
...before the State War & Navy Building and were starting back when city and White House policemen swooped down to arrest them. The charge: Parading without a permit. Singing the "Internationale" and jeering a White House motor car, they were marched off to the police station, thoroughly pleased with their fate...
...Thompson quoted letters from booksellers in Winnipeg, Chicago, San Francisco, Toledo, Seattle, Atlanta, Cleveland, telling of complaints against the book, threats to withdraw custom unless sale of the book was stopped, testifying to the effective activities of Christian Science Committees on Publication. Author Thompson reminded his readers of the fate of an earlier biography of Mrs. Eddy, The Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy, by Adam & Lillian S. Dickey, published in 1927 by the Merrymount Press of Boston. This book was recalled at the behest of the Board of Directors of the Mother Church in Boston so thoroughly that now only...
...remarks about the spirit of democracy, the traditional freedom of the undergraduate, and--thunder from Plympton Street--the evils of the system. It may be that the upperclassmen have some sentiment about breaking established attachment with the Georgian. And there will naturally and rightly be some concern about the fate of the Clubs. But if their place is equally well or better filled by the Houses, there ought to be no great regret if some of them at least do go out of existence...