Word: impacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Into the "ayes" lobby filed 205 members, equally assorted. From the gallery looked down in consternation the impotent Bishops. Their three-to-one victory in the Lords had turned to a bitter four-to-five defeat in the Commons. . . . For a moment the vote's shattering impact seemed lost upon 77-year-old Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, Archbishop of Canterbury. Then great tears gushed from his eyes, sobs issued from his throat. Slowly he was led away by the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Primate of England, Archbishop of York. The labors...
There, as in Japan, wharves, jetties, ships, buildings were hurled landwards or smacked flat by mighty impact. Later the shattered remnants were sucked into the sea by the retreating water...
...meet the "enemy," dashing fearlessly through the man-made fog. Out of the gloom rose of a sudden two ironclad monsters, the 6,000-ton cruisers Jintsu and Naka. Too late to turn, useless to reverse en- gines-into the hulking cruisers the tiny destroyers crashed with deaf- ening impact. In 15 minutes the Warabi was lying 60 fathoms beneath the surface of the sea, the captain, eleven officers and 90 men drowned. Only 22 of the crew were saved. The Ashi, which had apparently skimmed the Naka, remained afloat with a great gash in her bows. But the impact...
...Lieutenant Balchen piloted the America into the waves, as gently as possible. The impact hurled Commander Byrd, watching at his cabin window, into the sea. He saw Lieutenant Noville climbing out of another window, dazed and unable to hear his shouts. He swam to the cockpit, helped Lieutenant Balchen extricate himself from the wreckage. Everyone yelled for Bert Acosta-he was not in the cabin-but soon he appeared out of the dark waves. Two days later, a Paris surgeon discovered that Mr. Acosta had a fractured collarbone, the only serious injury of the crash...
Last week, Comte de Broqueville continued: "Belgium would be helpless before another German invasion. . . . The weakness of our present frontier is notorious. . . . The Government must regretfully propose the construction as rapidly as possible of a system of fortresses built on entirely new lines to resist the impact of modern war machinery...