Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loudly hailing his reciprocal trade treaties as the biggest break yet in the "economic log jam", Secretary Hull displayed in Minneapolis last week a naive and childlike conception of the havoc which Roosevelt policies have brought to our foreign trade. The combined effects of AAA crop reduction and the reciprocal agreements have closed foreign markets to many of our vital crops like cotton, and at the same time opened the gates wide for the importation from abroad of products much better produced at home. Clearly a policy which calls for slaughtering cattle in the north-west and then importing more...
...Simmons, Dave Glueck, and Tom Choate composed the trio of linemen Harlow singled out for the highest praise he has bestowed this year. The change came during the Jayvee scrimmage with the Varsity, and after noticing the havoc wrought in his Varsity offense by the three Jayvee linemen, Harlow decided that it would be better to have them on his squad than spoiling his plays...
...fundamentals, and the coaching staff is administering this in large doses. Caused partly by the absence due to examinations, of Gaffney and Adlis, the line play was not up to standard, and this defect stood out particularly in the Freshman scrimmage. Healey, big Yardling tackle, was causing considerable havoc in the Varsity offense...
...disagreement already existing between Great Britain and the United States as to what the parity should be between the dollar and the pound, for, as might be expected, the English bankers and economists have no especial love for the figure of $4.87 to the pound, the rate which played havoc with their trade during the twenties...
...encyclical pointed out that "a motion picture is viewed by people who are seated in a dark theatre and whose faculties . . . are relaxed." It deplored the "havoc wrought in the souls of youth and childhood . . . the loss of innocence so often suffered in motion-picture theatres. . . ." It regretted the inability or indisposition of right-minded Catholics to become cinema producers, whose wares would be morally an improvement upon Hollywood's. After 3,500 or so words the encyclical came down "to certain practical indications...