Word: disruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the period of April Hour Examinations is the subject of an annual controversy at least substantiates the premise of the objectors that the present arrangement is unsatisfactory. The chief difficulty is that these tests disrupt the natural progress of the second half year and are of no value to anyone either as a standard for marking or a method of assurance that course work is kept up to date. For Seniors writing theses and preparing for Divisional Examinations the situation is particularly obnoxious...
...handbills at the same time as the morning CRIMSON, a paid service which it has extended before. It has no sympathy with the sensationalism of the protest or with the injection of the question of various religions. To heighten the agitation with the emotion of sectarianism is only to disrupt any united protest that might be achieved and to obscure the practical aspect by a cloud of bias, raised because of the irritation of a delicate subject...
While he stopped at the Savoy in London during the Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct. 13 to Nov. 24), Prime Minister James Henry Scullin was faced with a crisis (on repudiation of national debts) in Australia, which threatened to disrupt his Labor Party. Telephone officials proudly revealed last week that Prime Minister Scullin met his crisis by spending an average of $150 daily telephoning 11,000 mi. to his Australian henchmen...
...when he conciliated a strike of Jewish garment workers, the misery of many Jews first struck him strongly He read up-slowly as is his habit-on their problems, joined the Zionists in 1912. Two years later the World War threatened to disrupt the work of International Zionism. He took command and put his economic principles to work in Palestine. The War situation of Zionism was a crisis. Justice Brandeis considered it an Ivry and was proud to boast, as he (erroneously) remembered King Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) had boasted to his Captain Crillon...
...moving out of its path, a shot fired into the column of water will cause it to collapse. Science has no record of this having actually been done, for the good reason that no cannon projectile (unless perhaps a large explosive shell timed exactly) would be big enough to disrupt the enormous vacuum which supports the water column...