Word: loss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horror of the Squalus' loss of the men in her flooded aft was mitigated by the rescue of the 33 survivors. There was no grain of satisfaction for the British public in the Thetis disaster, worst in submarine history. There were just two cold epitaphs. "Chlorine gas fumes," said a British medical authority, "in a confined space like the interior of a submerged submarine, would cause early asphyxiation, immediately preceded by loss of consciousness." And over the spot in the Irish Sea where the submarine rested, there floated a new green buoy on whose side was freshly painted...
...business enough to put the company in the black. If Baldwin then got another $30,000,000 of locomotive business, and $5-10,000,000 of railroad accessory business, thanks to the Government, it would owe the New Deal a handsome bow indeed. Instead of a $1,032,000 loss (1938) it might one of these years turn up with better than $5,000,000 profit...
...standing of the Government department will be even less satisfactory. Is it, so strong that it can shrug off the loss of two of its most brilliant minds and dependable workers...
...best book because it is his clearest and most interesting, The Bridegroom Cometh "dramatizes [says Frank] in flesh and blood the loss of the religious instinct in modern American life, and both the need and the promise of its triumphant rebirth." It is really a sequel: all of Frank's writing is focused on the search for a new religion...
...Bridegroom Cometh better dramatizes Mary's loss of faith than her rebirth. But it is provocative testimony to Author Frank's thesis that U. S. life is deeply grained with religious tradition...