Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...responsibility that rests with the superintendent of buildings will be duly appreciated when one considers how much havoc carelessness on his part may produce in the health of a large part of the college community...
Prof. Lanciani, in his lecturing tour in this country, has suffered some $100 loss from the breaking of lantern slides and the like, caused by frequent packings and unpackings and the havoc of traveling...
...effect is truly startling. Long, long years have passed since these gay folk lived and loved and fought and made merry in the old Palatinate. Havoc and desolation have swept the city time and again since then. They had their day and went to rest; and their bones have long since dropped quietly to dust. Yet some weird spell has called them from the grave. Here they are once more, riding through these same streets, with the same trappings, the same armor, the same music and, in the case of historical personages, almost the same features. Professor Jacob Mycillus goes...
...rather seldom, that a side has such contradictory remarks from its supporters, but the affirmative made havoc with these conflicting opinions. The next debate will be on the question, "Resolved, That President Cleveland should furnish the U. S. Senate all papers bearing on removals...
...opportunity for having a good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition put on the northern side, and also erected the little building which stood just to the east of the addition. This he had fitted up as a workshop for the manufacture of muskets. As a state enterprise, however, this...