Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Searching questions are the fashion of the day. In a world where economy reigns, every institution, every activity must justify itself. It is essential that higher education be subjected to the same skeptical analysis as everything else. Such analysis will have an impact on the individual student as well as on the system as a whole...
Searching questions are the fashion of the day. In a world where economy reigns, every institution, every activity must justify itself. It is essential that higher education be subjected to the same skeptical analysis as everything else. Such analysis will have an impact on the individual student as well as on the system as a whole...
...After I recovered from the terrific impact of the wreck itself, I crouched on the floor of the coach, using suitcases as barriers and expecting every minute to be shot. . . . The bandits then boarded the train ordering everybody out at revolver points. We were lined up like criminals and while one group pressed the muzzles of pistols to our heads and another squad held us covered from behind, a third stripped and robbed us. ... Apparently our clothes and baggage were worth more to the brigands than our bodies. In the midst of our misery we could hear the agonized cries...
Holmes Airport. Only a few weeks ago a wind like that had kept the silvered globule from landing for 31 hr. Gingerly Pilot Dixon nosed the Columbia to within 50 ft. of the ground, when a sudden down-gust slapped the craft to earth. The impact knocked the engines askew, twisted the propellers into pretzels-one blade piercing the envelope. Before the ground crew could capture the ship an up-draught bounced it away again into the gale, ballooning crazily and quite out of control. Over the flatlands near Flushing Bay Pilot Dixon signalled Mechanic John Blair to yank...
Black constables shouting cockney rushed among the people, trying to get them indoors. The first impact struck the Jesuit mission on the shorefront, lifted it, sifted it through its invisible hands like a pack of cards. There perished ten priests. They had come a long way to die: from St. Louis, from Buffalo, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Superior and Racine (Wis.), Reading (Pa.), from Ireland, from Spain...