Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even in the South of England several degrees of frost have been frequently registered, " playing havoc with garden and fruit crops." Each night cold Britishers huddle around huge fires and sigh for Summer...
...proper diameter, would be promptly repudiated in a country so well instructed by comic sections. Where Swiss cheeses are unfailingly represented with holes for their identification, just as a tail differentiates man and monkey in the same school of Art. The disclosure of this difficulty will, of course, play havoc with the popular idea that the holes depend upon gangs of Swiss maidens who construct them with their teeth as well as the rival theory that the marksman ship of the Swiss fleet is responsible for the regularity of the pattern...
...strain of sadness, Mr. O'Brien's new book is a delightfully readable book overflowing with the joy of living. The author went to Tahitit to play--not to make scientific investigations or profound deducts on the benefits and evils of our civilization. He cannot help noting the terrible havoc which has been wrought through all Ocean, but he does not let this hang too heavily upon...
...also noted in the case of half-courses, one of which continues the work of the other. Although the work of the second semester is usually started with practically the same subject, the identical lecturer, and about the same students in the course, a change of assistants sometimes plays havoc with the former relative standing of individual members of the class...
...courage to carry out what they know to be true on account of fear from the disappointment that such action would arouse in their own countries. A war of 4 1-2 years duration and a short-sighted, sinful peace, whose destructive results have wrought a two year's havoc in the whole world, have together brought misery and misfortune to the victors as well as to the vanquished. We have squandered human lives and property in a terrible way during the last six years. Now, like business men, we must cooperate and limit all obligations in the borders...