Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sad disaster--but not so sad as the ravage of 1914, for it is an accident lacking the element of intention. But accidents may breathe with the breath of Nemesis, and whether there be intention or not, the Oppau calamity is a part of the history of the war. For who are those that the seeking out the bodies of the dead among the ruins today? They are French soldiers, and it is the French officers who will investigate the causes of the explosion. --The Boston Transcript...
...nine swung into its longest stride, and reached its best form. Holy Cross went to New Haven basing their confidence of victory on their two previous successes, but the Yale players turned them down to a 7-3 defeat. Tunney, who had before held the Eli hits to a sad minimum, was knocked out of the box in the sixth, while his opponents continued to find his successor, Gill. This was unquestionably Yale's triumph of the season, and it is on account of this victory, more than for anything else that life University cannot feel confident today...
...gentleman who wrote the review of Dean Clark's "Discipline and the Derelict" for the Crimson of Friday, May 20, betrays, both directly and by implication, that he is in a sad condition of ignorance concerning a university in which Harvard has a very special interest...
Unfortunately this bold statement is slightly vitiated on its negative side by the fact that the usual method of probing, the written examination is to be employed. The preversion of this delicate instrument into an extractor of meticulous bits of unrelated information is a sad fact of experience to most of us. No doubt those who formulated the new rules mean to stress intelligence and to make the examination broad and general rather than textual. Let us hope...
...should find Mr. O'Brien, who too had long anticipated a visit to Tahiti, even more disappointed and disillusioned when he visited? Tahiti nearly forty years after Loti. As in his book telling of the marquesas Islands, in this later book there is constantly recurring the note of sadness which is felt by all lovers of the Polynesians when they contemplate the sad remnant of that once spleen did race. Whenever a barbaric people have been wiped out by civilization it has made a sorry, sordid tale; the physical beauty and lovable natures of the Tahitians has made the story...