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Word: tragic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among them gave thought to the tragic extermination of the wild life which formed the principal article of food of the pioneers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ancient Instances | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...confirmed. He dreamed, for example, that his watch had stopped at a certain time, woke to find that it had indeed stopped at that time. He had prophetic dreams of the Martinique volcano explosion and earthquake, of the arrival in Khartoum of a Cape-to-Cairo expedition, of a tragic factory fire in Paris. No gull for swamis and crystal-gazers, Soldier Dunne thought he might be falsely imagining, when he read of some event in a newspaper, that he had previously dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dreams Come True? | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Lives of football heroes, child actors, prodigious poets and boy Senators have demonstrated time & again the perils and penalties of early fame. Spotlighted in Washington last week was the rarer but less tragic phenomenon of a man to fame came late. Seventeen years ago Dr. Francis Everett retired to California to spend last years in the sun. Like that of every physician, his life in South Dakota's Black Hills had been a hard one which had him no fame and very little Legend has it that Dr. Townsend's new life began when he looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Messiah on the March | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...This discouragement is natural, but we ardently wish that our English friends will succeed in overcoming it. The organization of peace and of the League of Nations is based on the fundamental condition that there is agreement between the British and French democracies. What could be more tragic than if Britain were to fail the great cause precisely at the moment when France is preparing to support it to the best of her ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bodards & Bogeys | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...prolog that many a Detroiter shifted uneasily, began to fear for the evening to come. First act picked up when the scene changed to the interior of a synagog. Comics were the bearded batlans who droned their prayers for a kopek or two, spent their earnings on vodka. A tragic, pale-faced figure was Hanan, Nissen's son, torn between the Talmud and the cabalistic mysticism which used to be feared by all good Jews. By prayers and fasting Hanan had hoped finally to win Sender's daughter Leah. Instead he dropped dead calling on the unholy powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dybbuk in Detroit | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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