Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were atrocities at Sholapur. This city - a cotton-spinning metropolis of 12,000 - was for a time virtually ruled by various mobs, some followers of the Saint, others a nondescript rabble out to loot while looting was good. After 50 deaths, 400 woundings, disorder continued. As a crowning horror three Mohammedan policemen were seized by Hindus, drenched with gasoline and burned. Despatches disagreed as to whether they were "burned alive...
...Clifford Rush Eskey. Bubonic plague, the Black Death, has been one of man's most terrific scourges. In the 14th Century it killed 13,000,000 people in China, 24,000,000 in the rest of the East, 25,000,000 (onefourth of the population) in Europe. Its horror is recorded in Daniel DeFoe's Journal of the Plague Year, 1665, when 70,000 died in London. In 1630, 80,000 perished in Milan. Between 1896 and 1917 it killed 10,000,000 over the world. Although San Francisco is one of the five known endemic foci...
...Daredevil Willie Hundertmark stood up in his plane, seized and clung to a rope ladder suspended from a second plane flying above him. Intermittently, for a half-hour, they continued to cheer while, with Daredevil still dangling from the bottom rung, the plane swooped and circled low. Then with horror they saw that the acrobat was tangled in the ladder, was too exhausted to free himself. Rescuers tried to snatch the swinging body but it was tangled too badly. The plane had to land. Daredevil Willie Hundertmark was dragged to death...
...while some have looked on the Philadelphian Society with horror, some with amusement, some with complete apathy, almost every Princetonian has regarded it as weak. This judgment was echoed last week by the society itself. President Charles Stevens announced that next year it will lead only a nominal life, while a federation of studentry and faculty carries on its charitarian and other endeavors. Many Princetonians discerned behind this movement the energetic figure of Rev. Robert Russell Wicks, Dean of the University Chapel, who arrived at Princeton two years ago from the Second Church (Congregationalist) of Holyoke, Mass., determined that Princeton...
...means, what one is supposed to feel about it, was vastly facilitated by these performances. It was the first time the music had been visually translated in the U. S. by choreography. Music lovers whose inner selves had before this leapt up in convulsions of inarticulate joy or horror at Stravinsky's colossal strains, were supplied with a concrete ideology for their raptures or protests. No patience for the average soul's necessity to articulate has Composer Stravinsky. A poet of barbarism, he describes his outpourings as abstract sound; scorns, protests all attempts to translate...