Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These etchings are as accurate a representation of the ghastly havoc of war as one could wish to see, for they are almost photographic in their realism and have a brutal treatment which spares nothing, no matter how grim or repulsive. His "Wounded Man in Retreat" shows the head of a soldier, a great wound in his forehead from which the blood drips about his eyes, with an intensity of fright and pain in his expression which could not well be duplicated. The bulging, staring eyes, the dirty, straggly beard and disheveled hair, the open, gaping mouth, all give force...
...With earnestness we have desired to share with you in the spiritual sweetness of this richest feast and join our prayers and intercessions with yours to obtain an ever renewed and ever greater increase of faith and Catholic life ... to deprecate the unspeakable material and moral havoc of wars and their dire aftermath of tears and sorrow; to implore that peace that is so much desired by all. peace to those that are near and to those that are far, and to supplicate at least a less intolerable burden of life for a world worn to exhaustion by the ravages...
...Corporation has voted to establish an endowment fund which will eventually support both the intercollegiate and intramural program and will set aside a small contribution to the fund each year. Since the War, football receipts have made up more than 80 percent of the athletic budget, but havoc has been caused by the 60 percent decrease in receipts from $706,000 in 1929 to $292,000 last fall...
...months in advance by students of metreology who had discovered a five-year period of abnormal rain-fall, reduced wheat production to a point which made even the AAA's effort appear puny by comparison. Because of the drought and government "planning" any surplus was expected to be negligible. Havoc wrought by the recent dust storm, coupled with continued government reduction, has now made any real surplus impossible and a shortage probable. High- or wheat prices, all ready reflected in the Chicago grain markets, may well mean higher-priced broad, the disastrous social and political consequences of which may easily...
...started among Harvard's exiles. Dr. Hathaway is being persecuted and when anyone is looking he must release his patients a day later than he did last week. If you have an impressive bearing, however, they say you can get out on his old time. This discrimination is raising havoc but that is tomorrow's story...