Word: sufferer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were to fly 10,000 miles annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in the 39th year; might be killed in the 282nd. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (instruction, sightseeing, joyhopping, et al.) he might anticipate an accident every 5.8 years, prepare for death in the 36th. These chances are based upon the civil air accident record for January-June 1930, published last week by the Department of Commerce...
...Ware radio did suffer a temporary eclipse, but it was only temporary, and it is far from dead. The new Ware Manufacturing Corp. has been actively engaged in development work during the past two years. Last year it marketed a small line of high-class receivers entirely representative of the Ware reputation. . . . The Ware company has the nucleus of a strong distributor organization throughout the important sections of the U. S., and is now in production on the Ware Bantam, a diminutive receiver which we will all hear a lot about in the next few months...
...Every great humanitarian movement has its setbacks. The fight for prohibition has suffered defeats before and will suffer others in the future. Like other reforms it advances by a series of advancing and receding waves. But this is noticeable each advancing wave has always gone farther than, and each receding wave has not gone back so far as the preceding...
...eight meets this year, starting its season after the Yale football game, and will compete with Brown, Syracuse. West Point. Dartmouth, and Yale, all of whom. Ulen point out have had teams for as long as twenty years. For this reason, asserts the coach, Harvard is bound to suffer greatly from comparative lack of experience and can scarcely hope for a very imposing string of victories. By the end of the year however. Harvard should have mastered the fundamentals and at the close of its fourth season should have built up a team that is on a par with...
...various departments of Harvard, sayeth the Vagabond this fair morning, have individual cycles of greatness. There was the English department, which boasted of Briggs, Copeland, Perry, Hurlbut, and countless others. The Vagabond had spasms of fear last spring that the glory that was English was beginning to suffer a tangible decline. For such upward trends, symbolized by the youthful Murdock and Matthiessen, he is thankful...