Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them two extra cents an hour, as urged by the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, brings the tough-minded realism of the school of business administration into conflict with the more tender-minded humanities, which still flourish, one may hope, in the older departments of the university. It is a tragic collision, in which the humanities have been knocked out. --Springfield Republican...
...these was a wizened little doctor who made the Haitians realize that they could achieve their dream. Toussaint was his name; L'ouverture he was called because of his enormous success. When he was trapped by the French, Dessalines and Christopher followed in his footsteps. Although each met a tragic death, they accomplished something, for a black empire had been set up, and despite the fighting that ensued between blacks and mulattoes the foreigners at least had been driven out and black people ruled themselves in the Island of Haiti. By 1820 the tradition was established and Haiti set about...
...downfall, his wife comes to him, offering her humble adoration to meet the new humility which she expects him to have found. But the man's egoism is pounding within him-he casts her aside as he prepares again to assail his rivals, a savage, solitary, tragic figure with nothing left but his will-to-power...