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Word: bankruptey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popularity of Ph. Beta Kappa men would increase by leaps and bounds, but what athletic star would not feel slighted by the discrimination exercised against him? To meet his demands and the claims of prominent students in every other field the college would have to choose between bankruptey and civil war, with the odds favoring the slighted groups to come out ahead. To avoid such a catastrophe it is to be hoped Oberlin raises its professor's salary and gives him a new car in the bargain before he can put such a dangerous theory into practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOTORIZED CAMPUS | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...successful Senator Wheeler's political career will be forever ruined. Whatever its outcome, his financial resources are certain to be exhausted in the expense of conducting three defenses. Only the charity of the country can save him. That charity, if expended, will not only keep Senator Wheeler from bankruptey, but will destroy the new and dangerous precedent of using the executive departments of the Government for personal or party revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXECUTIVE PERSECUTION | 5/20/1925 | See Source »

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