Word: havoc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Though their exaltation of spirit be obscured, though men make light of the aspirations for making that shone upon their path, though profiteers grow rich upon the havoc wrought by war, though their own comrades use it to extort a dole; yet is their sacrifice of undying value and untarnished splendor. It stands for a faith that life is but a means to a still greater end, that life has an object More precious far than life itself. No selfishness of man or nation can, blot their sacrifice or mock then faith, for through that faith alone is life worth...
...this subject, which, considering the attitude of most Englishmen toward the Volstead Act, is unusual indeed. I asked him if his liking for prohibition was not because it made life so much more adventuresome; but he assured me that his feeling was based entirely upon observations of the havoc caused by the drinking of hard liquor in small towns of England and Scotland...
News from Worcester would seem to indicate that the Holy Cross eleven is confident to a man that the Purple machine will play havoc with the Crimson in the Stadium on Saturday. In fact, the University's showing against Middlebury has greatly increased the optimism in Coach Cleo O'Donnell's camp until now the feeling is that Saturday's game will more than avenge the stinging 20 to 0 defeat administered by Coach Fisher last year...
Premier Poincare of France, however, seems determined to stay in the Ruhr until such time as Germany starts to make reparation payments. Even then France will only withdraw progressively as payments are received. In two speeches Premier Poincare laid stress on the havoc and wanton destruction wrought in France by the Germans during the War. In no sense can either of these speeches be regarded as a preface to a French reply to the latest British note, although M. Poincare was aware of the contents of the note at the time of making his speeches. He did, however, make...
...Edgar said: " Beyond Dawo we began to get startling confirmation of the havoc wrought by a mighty force from the bowels of the earth. At one village we found that every house had been leveled to the earth and quite half of the inhabitants killed...