Word: ruction
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...settle who is and who is not to blame for the great ruction in the Ruhr is a task too great for the average man. And yet the average man is likely to settle it very nicely in his own mind on the second-hand information and bias of his particular daily newspaper. For one who has not been able to travel abroad and study the problems at first hand, this is practically his only means of reaching a conclusion. There is one other way--to gather first hand information from the talk of one who has been able...
...American scholar, concerning his son's career at Yale may interest some of our readers: "My son is doing nobly at college. The hereditary instinct is beginning to assert itself at last. He has joined the Young Men's Christian Association; has been foremost in every class rush and ruction; claims to have disabled permanently two sophomores, - and is himself a mass of bruises from head to foot. His popularity has so grown that all the freshman secret societies are after him, and he has, as I understand, already joined several. From his last engagement he sought his room with...