Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person would believe that short sellers alone could cause a major slump of values. Their defenders point out that they exert a restraining influence on unwarranted optimism and expansion and that they usually buy heavily after a defiation of prices. Depressing security values by false rumors is a great evil, but it is no greater than the artificial stimulation of confidence...
...cast-iron animals on their lawns as symbols of wealth and security, so King Sargon II of Assyria had this stone bull-and another one just like it-placed at the gates of his palace 2,600 years ago to celebrate his conquests and, superstitiously, to ward off evil spirits. Dr. Breasted's sharp-bearded little colleague, Dr. Edward Chiera, dug up both bulls two years ago at Khorsabad on the upper Tigris. The Iraq Government kept one but after much sweating & swearing, an expensive ocean carry, a perilous rail trip, Dr. Chiera got his bull to Chicago...
...atmosphere where football is considered the central interest of college life, it probably passes as a regrettable but minor blunder. To those who think of a university as something more than a field-house and a stadium, it will appear as the outcome of a wide-spread evil in contemporary college life...
...bush is the root of all evil...
...generally felt that the obstruction of right of way caused by the rotunda was an unnecessary evil, A proposal was made by C. R. Apted, head caretaker in the University to utilize an entrance now concealed by Foster's Restaurant instead of the rotunda. Before the rotunda was built plans were made to have three entrances or exits, one next to Lehman Hall, the only one of the three now in use; one on the site of the tobacco shop on the corner adjoining the Harvard Cooperative Society Building; and one where Foster's Restaurant now stands, and these last...