Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airships that have been constructed during the last few years could not conceivably suffer the fate of the Shenandoah. It is true that your American airship ran into a very bad storm, almost a tornado, but it would not have broken to pieces if it had been designed according to modern plans. Aerial styles change more quickly than any other kind, but they follow the dictates of Science and are steadily improving. Soon the plans that we are so proud of now will be regarded as mere experiments. I dare not estimate the progress of the future...
...Crimson front defense and smothered play after play well behind the line of scrimmage. Often, particularly in the first half, French, back to pass or kick, found the Bruins climbing over him before he could get the ball in position to get away. Later, Chauncey suffered the same fate, and several times was thrown for losses of 10 or 15 yards before he could dispose of the pigskin...
...from his note book in toto, even including some doggerel verse--verse undoubtedly as fine as was ever written by any Iowa-born American in the French Air Service. But it is not literature, not until the next-to-last chaper. In these forty pages Mr. Hall describes the fate of "The Forgotten One," an Englishman who chose almost absolute solitude on a tiny island as the goal of life. For some years he was happy, but of a sudden his evesight failed; madness followed. Mr. Hall reaches here his highest level...
...Monitor and Merrimac, of Dewey in Manila Bay. It was President Roosevelt in 1907 when he sent the fleet around the world who first demonstrated that the Navy was a potent organization instead of a few glamorous names, a few precocious children of Fate. The Navy today lacks immortals, but is big with efficiency...
...refuse even to pass the time of day.' Then I changed my mind. Said I: 'England is America-mad. The English girl imitates the American girl . . . the English boy plans to go to America . . . forgetting their own very real superiorities. . . . America is curiously indifferent to its fate. None of our newspapers has the courage to discuss . . . the Catholic question, the Negro question, the money-power question or even the liquor question. But wait until population increases to the bare subsistence level. Then America will meet her first test...