Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a hen sitting patiently on a nest full of china eggs and growing worried because they would not hatch, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau has since last December been sitting on the Government's sterilized golden nest egg. Ever since then, the Government has been buying all the...
Despite the wretched showing in the three league encounters, the Varsity boosted its fielding average from fifth position in the circuit to first place with .949.
Official figures, published in Germany, reveal that more than 1,000 lay brothers and "numerous" priests were fortnight ago on trial or awaiting trial for immorality. Fifty-three had already been convicted. Suddenly Nazi State police swooped down on a Catholic boys' seminary at Heiligenstadt in Thuringia, closed it...
It has apparently escaped the attention of that writer that embraced in Admiral Cervera's squadron, were four armored cruisers each more heavily gunned than any vessels of the corresponding type in the U. S. Navy and of almost equal speed. These are the fine vessels that the writer...
Green's Flats. It was an early spring day in 1893 when Ned Green arrived in the sleepy Texas town of Terrell, the owner of a wretched little railroad his mother had foreclosed on. He announced he would turn two streaks of rust into "one of the best railroads...