Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pride of the Skagway-Victoria Line, steamed out of port with a 61-man crew, 108 passengers, a dozen stowaways, began threading its way through the narrow straits. At 2 a. m., when most of the passengers had reeled off to bed, the Islander hit something with a mighty impact, sank off Douglas Island in 365 ft. of water. Forty-two persons were lost...
...Coast," but police, in pig-snouted gas masks, rounded up the rioters and drove them South of the Slot. Commuters to Oakland bound for the Ferry House and crossing the Embarcadero on the viaduct from Market Street saw the battle from above, felt the sting of tear gas, the impact of missiles...
Relief. Plenty of animals were starving, but as yet few people. That would come later. The great summer drought of 1930 did not deliver its full impact of human misery until the following autumn and winter. Recalling the volunteer assistance which South Dakota gave Arkansas in those terrible times, Editor W. T. Sitlington of the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat called upon the farmers of his State to repay a "mercy debt." Taking the cue, Governor J. Marion Futrell of Arkansas declared : "Gratitude calls upon the people of Arkansas who are able to do so, to show their appreciation...
Compared to the simple audacity and youth of rugby, the ponderousness of American football as played and presented today reminds me of a weight)' clash between the Boards of Directors of General Motors and U. S. Steel. There they think deeply of mighty matters of sales impact, where the next onslaught should be directed. Their legal advisor-coaches sum up the opportunities and dangers, decide to put the vice-president-in-charge-of-forward-passes on the Board for some critical moments. One of the Directors feels faint from having been at it for too long. He is ordered...
...individualism, we may expect the Christian doctrine of equality to orient the churches with a new economic society. So much had been pointed out by Leo XIII, but institutions are more sluggish than doctrines; Dr. Niebuhr has attempted to show the probable behavior of ecclesiastical institutions under the impact of an economic and political crisis...