Word: havoc
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...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...
...into a national sensation and started the procession which has brought to grim Mihara-yama 350 known suicides and 1,386 attempted suicides in two short years. Smitten down by the Press furor, delicate Miss Tomito visibly pined away, died some months later, broken-hearted at the havoc she had caused...
...house, sloshed gasoline all over its floors, touched it off with matches. Firemen never had a chance. The mob stood guard over their work until the large brick building was a roaring furnace. The court house burned all night. All county records were destroyed. Shelbyville businessmen, aroused at the havoc their country cousins and excitable fellow townsmen had wrought, held a mass meeting, formed a vigilante corps. Dr. Moody told newshawks that he thought that Lillian was not pregnant, had not actually been raped. Indeed, she was back at school. Nevertheless Father Gibson swore a mighty oath, declaring: "The fire...