Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have smashed by many an inch the present "world's record" of 6 ft. 8 5/16 in. (held by Harold M. Osborn of Illinois). Should the towering Watusi blackamoors ever send a picked team of runners and jumpers to the Olympic Games, great might be the havoc they could wreak...
...land, stories began to trickle into the newspapers telling of the havoc wrought by the cyclone. At Folkestone, a motor truck was blown into the sea and the driver killed. At Portsmouth, a tramcar was blown into a house. In Wales, the coal mines were flooded. Along the Thames, people were "drowned out of their houses." From every coastal point, news came to London telling of angry waves battering the piers and swamping the promenades. Damage to telegraph and telephone wires greatly interfered with communication, while Channel boats suspended service between England and France...
...idol lay untended and forgotten in the days of war when all men's minds must belong, willy-nilly, to their country. The New Republic, equally impious, destroys his hypothesis that high taxes restrict individual beneficence toward education. On all sides Doctor Butler's pet theories are bombarded with havoc. But evidently he has found a bomb-proof shelter, from which he mocks his adversaries. From the solid materials of scholarship and reflection, he has built an edifice of authority within which he sits untroubled by the blood-cravings of the hostile mob without...
Coach Drohan was not very optimistic concerning the prospects of the Freshman five yesterday afternoon. The two weeks interruption in practice caused by the Christmas recess has played havoc with the dribbling and pass-work developed before the vacation...
...poet the hero of the performance. As played by Richard Bird, a young Englishman who came with Havoc (TIME, Sept. 15), even the customarily brilliant performance of Katherine Cornell was slightly shaded in comparison. Miss Eames, Mr. de Cordoba and Mr. Cossart completed one of the soundest and most dextrous casts it is the playgoer's fair fortune to contemplate...