Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. . . . The grain required to produce the increased quantities of these dairy products amounts to 10,067,196,000 lb. This is approximately three times as much grain as was used all told in the manufacture of fermented liquors in 1917. ... It is tragic to find so-called national leaders advocating as the solution of our social and economic problems the legalization of beer...
Never a writer of spectacular verse, Poet Robinson's natural inclinations toward subtle statement, his growing preoccupation with the psychological niceties of tragic states of mind have quieted his writing more & more. In Matthias at the Door you will be struck gasping by no mighty lines; but if you read closely you may note many a pithy phrase. Some of them...
...appealed to them to make the half-way approach to other nationalities that is necessary if friendships are to form. To Graduate School men in particular were the speaker's words of appeal that the men of higher academic pursuits in specialized subjects should not fall into the meta-tragic error of being born men, but of dying as physicists or physicians. Humanity must not suffer itself to be buried and dried up by the exhausting requirements of higher study, maintained Dean Sperry...
...platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt up Everest in 1924 (TIME, July 14, 1924), last week objected "that if a mountain is worth climbing at all, it is worth climbing without these adventitious aids, or with at least as few as possible." This roast-beefy sporting attitude vexed Dr. Raymond Greene who just climbed...
...death of Consul Taggart while serving at his post emphasizes that life in the Foreign Service often entails sacrifice even unto death. Since the earliest days of our national existence many Foreign Service officers have died under tragic or heroic circumstances. The first of these was William Palfrey of Massachusetts, who in 1780 was appointed 'Consul to reside in France.' He sailed for his post on the Shillala, an armed ship of 16 guns. The vessel was never heard from after it passed the Delaware Capes...