Word: demolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talking about the "last phase of the Depression" as early as the autumn of 1930. He can analyze other people's analyses with devastating results. Yet his own conclusions are often challenged, and his vision is sometimes curiously narrow. But given a popular economic delusion, he can demolish it in one swift paragraph. His prestige has grown uninterruptedly throughout Depression, while the stature of other economic prophets was shrinking rapidly. Today he is one of the most-quoted bank economists in the land...
...scalps hanging from a burdened belt, a string of broken records left in its wake, the Harvard team has reached an enviable standing. Yale as usual, has an unbeaten team. But Coach Ulen's corps may pull the bulldog's tusks out this time and cheerfully demolish the good-luck charm which has hung around his leathery neck during the past 150 meets...
...Deal has lost most of its momentum, and in the coming campaign both parties will probably talk of balancing the budget." However, Mr. Thomas feels that the Republicans will find it extremely hard to demolish the New Deal bureaucracy and cut off all relief, if they do win the election, and that they would probably end up by just changing the initials of the organizations and appointing Republican officers...
...next attack will demolish the opposition," postulated the proclamation. "Two cannot stand on the same spot. Where we stand there is no room for any other...
Last week in London two distinguished Britons uprose to demolish the "Aryan fallacy" once & for all. A thousand scientists were there from 42 countries to attend the Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. In the audience were Germans who sat in stony silence amid gales of applause...