Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's apparent indifference to the miserable plight of Frau Cosima Wagner...
...Brasol, former District Attorney of Petrograd, will speak on the present plight of soviet Russia at 8 o'clock next Tuesday evening in the Living Room of the Union. He will discuss in particular the changes that his native country has undergone in the course of the last six years...
...excellent army program, adopted as a result of the war's experience, has been reduced to uselessness by the entirly inadequate appropriations of Congress. Even the National Guard and the Reserve Corps have been greatly impaired by this so-called economy. The navy is in much the same plight. Its personnel has been so reduced that it has to send its ships to the "graveyard" for de-commissioned vessels. On October 21, twelve destroyers, representing the 12th and 37th divisions, just returned from two years of patrol duty on the China coast, were added to the twenty-two vessels already...
...condition of innocuous desuetude." And Professor Ripley, in urging the rehabilitation of New England railroads, says: "This must take place through a mustering of all the financial resources of the region, public as well as private, if necessary. The industrial preservation of New England demands it. The present plight is avowedly critical...
...Boston Herald has brought to light by the publication of the results of some recent investigations, the unfortunate plight of many disabled veterans of the war. There are now, so the investigation shows, some 83,000 men, suffering from the effects of wounds or from injuries to their health brought on by their service in the army. Some of these men are in federal hospitals, others are paying for treatment from their own resources, many are in extreme need. The only hope of these last lies in getting their war risk insurance paid to them, and this, because...