Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funeral, 15 Senators rose one after another to pay spontaneous tribute to Joe Robinson. At the White House President Roosevelt, still in bed when the news was brought to him, rose on his elbow and dictated: "In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the Nation, we bow in sorrow. A pillar of strength is gone, a soldier has fallen with face to the battle...
...screen or on the printed page, the trench scenes from Erich Maria Remarque's book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...
...been inherited by many Italian day laborers' sons, who caddied on the courses their fathers tended. Guldahl is the first ex-caddie of Norwegian descent to develop top-flight golfing talent. Reared in Texas, Guldahl's talents in the past have sometimes seemed misplaced. After his tragic putt in 1933 which, if it had gone into the cup, would have made him a national celebrity, he speedily lost prestige. In 1935 he failed even to make a living out of golf, took to selling automobiles and working as a carpenter's assistant in Hollywood to support...
...long as 7 min. 30 sec., but most are several minutes shorter than that. Last year's June eclipse, for example, whose shadow path across Asia was studded with astronomers' observation camps (TIME, June 22), lasted only 2 min. 31½ sec. at maximum. There was a tragic irony about the eclipse which on Tuesday of this week passed for thousands of miles across the tropical wastes of the Pacific Ocean. At its noon point, totality lasted 7 min. 4 sec., longer than any eclipse since the rise of modem astronomy, longer in fact than any since...
...last learning, namely, that the Soviet-supported 'Loyalist' regime, in order to deceive the world of its real anti-Christian objective, is trying to make out that Franco's government is anti-Catholic because the Rebels are seeking to break up the unnatural and tragic alliance of the Basques with the Madrid Leftists...